Mautic is open source marketing automation software written in PHP. Mautic is a web based application provides Graphical User Interface. It allows you to easily manage social media engagement, contacts, email marketing, forms, campaign management, data analysis reports, etc.
In this article, You will learn that how to install the Mautic on RHEL 8 and CentOS 8.
Step 1: Disable SELinux
Open file /etc/selinux/config using below command and modify line from SELINUX=enforcing
to SELINUX=disabled
vi /etc/selinux/config
save changes and exit
Now reboot your machine
reboot
Step 2: Install EPEL 8 Repository on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
dnf -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm dnf -y install wget unzip
Step 3: Install LAMP on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
Install Apache Web Server
dnf -y install httpd
systemctl start httpd systemctl enable httpd
Install and Configure PHP
dnf install -y php php-common php-cli php-zip php-curl php-pear php-intl php-pdo php-mysqlnd php-pgsql php-gd php-mbstring php-json php-xml
Now edit /etc/php.ini file and make following changes.
vi /etc/php.ini
Un-comment the ;date.timezone = line and set the default time zone to “UTC”
date.timezone = "UTC"
and set mem_limit to 256
memory_limit = 256M
Install MariaDB Server
dnf -y install mariadb-server
Start and enable MYSQL service on boot.
systemctl start mariadb systemctl enable mariadb
Complete MYSQL installation
mysql_secure_installation
Set root password? [Y/n] Y
New password: password
Re-enter new password: password
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y
Create a MySQL database for Mautic
Log into the MariaDB console using below command and type your password when asked.
mysql -u root -p
Now create a new MariaDB user and grant it privileges on the created database. You can replace username and password with the username and password of your own choice. Create a new database name “mautic”
CREATE DATABASE mautic;
CREATE USER 'database_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO 'database_user'@'localhost';
Exit the MySQL console.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit
Step 4: Download Mautic and unzip it
Now download the mautic source code using wget, then extract it to the ‘html’ directory using the unzip command.
First of all switch to /var/www/html directory.
cd /var/www/html
Now download mautic zip file and named it mautic.zip
wget https://www.mautic.org/download/latest -O mautic.zip
Now unzip mautic.zip file in /var/www/html directory.
unzip mautic.zip -d /var/www/html
Now change ownership of html direcotry and set appropriate permissions.
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html chmod -R 755 /var/www/html
Step 5: Apache Confoguration
Now edit Apache configuration file and set your server IP in it and add index.php in DirectoryIndex
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
ServerName YOUR-SERVER-IP:80
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Save changes and exit
Then restart Apache server
systemctl restart httpd
Step 6: Adding Apache Service in Firewall
firewall-cmd --add-port={80/tcp,443/tcp} --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
Step 7: Mautic Marketing Automation Tool Installation
Finally open your browser and browse the link
http://YOUR-SERVER-IP
Click on “Next Step” and proceed to installation.
Now enter database details on the next page as below.
Then create admin login credentials for Mautic and click “Next Step”
Setup email configuration for mautic and click “Next Step”
After installation process, you will be redirected to the below login page, type your login details to access mautic dashboard.
Finally you will see below screen of mautic dashboard.
