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Install Mautic 5 with Composer on Debian 12

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Install repository for PHP 8.1 #

Mautic 5.0 requires PHP 8.0 or 8.1.

Install Sury’s Debian repository:

sudo apt install -y lsb-release apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl && \
sudo wget -O "/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/php.gpg" "https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg" && \
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list" && \
sudo apt update

Install repository for NodeJS / NPM #

NPM will be required by Composer.

Install the LTS (20.x) NodeJS Debian repository:

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | sudo -E bash -

Install required packages #

Install the dependencies:

apt install apache2 mariadb-server php8.1 php8.1-{fpm,xml,mysql,imap,zip,intl,curl,gd,mbstring,bcmath} nodejs unzip git

Configure MariaDB #

mysql_secure_installation

Create the DB and the user:

Generate a random password for the database and store it in an environment variable:

MYSQL_PASSWD=$(echo $RANDOM | md5sum | head -c 20)

To print the database password:

echo $MYSQL_PASSWD

Create the database and the user:

mysql --execute="CREATE DATABASE mautic; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mautic.* TO 'mautic'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '${MYSQL_PASSWD}' WITH GRANT OPTION; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

Composer #

Install the latest Composer:

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');" && \
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'dac665fdc30fdd8ec78b38b9800061b4150413ff2e3b6f88543c636f7cd84f6db9189d43a81e5503cda447da73c7e5b6') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;" && \
php composer-setup.php && \
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');" && \
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Configure PHP-FPM #

Configure the recommended settings for PHP-FPM:

nano +c/date.timezone /etc/php/8.1/fpm/php.ini

date.timezone = Europe/Budapest
Modify the values below to your needs!
sed -i 's/memory_limit = 128M/memory_limit = 512M/' /etc/php/8.1/fpm/php.ini && \
sed -i 's/upload_max_filesize = 2M/upload_max_filesize = 100M/' /etc/php/8.1/fpm/php.ini && \
sed -i 's/max_execution_time = 30/max_execution_time = 600/' /etc/php/8.1/fpm/php.ini && \
sed -i 's/post_max_size = 8M/post_max_size = 64M/' /etc/php/8.1/fpm/php.ini

Restart the PHP-FPM service to apply the settings:

systemctl restart php8.1-fpm.service

Apache #

Create the site config:

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/mautic.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName mautic.example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/mautic/docroot/

    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>

    <Directory /var/www/mautic/docroot/>
        Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Disable mpm_prefork:

sudo a2dismod mpm_prefork

Enable the required Apache modules:

a2enmod rewrite mpm_event proxy_fcgi setenvif

Enable PHP-FPM for Apache:

a2enconf php8.1-fpm

Enable the site:

a2ensite mautic.conf

Apply settings for Apache:

systemctl restart apache2

Install Mautic #

Install Mautic to /var/www/mautic/:

COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1 composer create-project mautic/recommended-project:^5.0 /var/www/mautic --no-interaction

Change the owner of the files:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/mautic