The complete Mautic installation video guide

Here are the list of commands you need to use during the installation process:

Install Apache:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2

You will be able to stop, restart and enable Apache with the following commands:

sudo systemctl stop apache2.service
sudo systemctl start apache2.service
sudo systemctl enable apache2.service

Now you can test if the install was successful, enter the IP address of your server and see if the Apache test page is displayed:

Now, let’s install the database server as well, we will go with MariaDB open source MYSQL server.

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client

This is how you start and stop MariaDB on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

sudo systemctl stop mysql.service
sudo systemctl start mysql.service
sudo systemctl enable mysql.service

This is how you start and stop MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service

Once we installed the database, let’s secure our installation.

sudo mysql_secure_installation

When prompted, answer the questions below by following the guide.

• Enter current password for root (enter for none): Just press the Enter
• Set root password? [Y/n]: Y
• New password: Enter password
• Re-enter new password: Repeat 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

Restart MariaDB server

sudo systemctl stop mariadb.service
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service

Log in with your previously created password. (You’ll be propted):

sudo mysql -u root -p

If your installation was successful, you should see something like this:

Now we will create the proper server environment, install php 7.1 and all modules needed to run Mautic smooth and fast.

First we do a repo-upgrade and update to php 7.1

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update

 

Now, we can add the 7.2 related php modules:

sudo apt install php7.1 libapache2-mod-php7.1 php7.1-common php7.1-gmp php7.1-curl php7.1-intl php7.1-mbstring php7.1-xmlrpc php7.1-mysql php7.1-bcmath php7.1-gd php7.1-xml php7.1-cli php7.1-zip

It’s time to tweak some php settings, let’s open php.ini:

sudo nano /etc/php/7.1/apache2/php.ini

Some of these settings will be already set as below, but you still need to make all the necessary changes.

You can anytime search in the file editor with CTRL+W. 

file_uploads = On
allow_url_fopen = On
short_open_tag = On
memory_limit = 256M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
max_execution_time = 360

regarding your time zone, you can look up the matching value here.

Example:

date.timezone = Europe/Budapest

When you finished, you can close the file with CTRL+X and Y + Enter