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Mautic 5 Installation on Ubuntu 22.04 with PHP 8.1 and MariaDB 11

Yosu Cadilla
September 17, 2023September 17, 2023

5 Simple Steps to Install Mautic 5

Install the packages required to run Mautic 5.
Install Mautic 5 Alpha1
Run the Mautic 5 configuration wizard.
Install the Mautic 5 Cron Jobs.
Enjoy your first Mautic 5 installation!

With a major code refactoring, a new Symfony 6 under the hood and an intensive fat reduction treatment, Mautic 5 is as lean and mean as it gets.
This is an alpha release and not yet ready for production, but the promise of a new level of stability and performance makes it very enticing to install Mautic 5 and give it a spin (surprise, surprise, it is faster and feels more streamlined).

But wait, there’s more! With PHP 8.1 support and MariaDB 11, your code will run faster than ever and your database will self optimize better than ever before.
So here’s, as always, the best possible specs for your new Mautic 5 installation! Start your Mautic 4 venture with the right foot!

Yosu Cadilla
May 26, 2023September 17, 2023
2 Comments

4 Simple Steps to Install Mautic 4

Install the packages required to run Mautic 4.
Install Mautic 4.4.10
Run the Mautic 4 configuration wizard.
Install the Mautic 4 Cron Jobs.

Yosu Cadilla
May 26, 2023September 10, 2023

It is not yet time to migrate to Mautic 5 for your production environment, it is still too soon!
Mautic 4 on the other hand is currently very mature. This is the most stable, efficient and secure Mautic version we had in a very long time, especially after the recent release of Mautic 4.4.10, which is the last release in the Mautic 4.x series.
If you haven’t yet updated your Mautic 3 to Mautic 4, now is the time, here’s a guide to do so, how to upgrade to Mautic 4 in 3 simple steps.

Mautic 3.3.5 Installation on Ubuntu 20.04 with PHP 7.3 and MySQL 5.7

Yosu Cadilla
August 6, 2022August 6, 2022
86 Comments

UPDATED on August, 6 2022 for Mautic 3.3.5. This is by far the simplest way to install Mautic 3 on a VPS.
With this Mautic 3 Installation tutorial, you will learn how to complete the Mautic 3.3.5 installation with PHP 7.3 on top of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and MySQL 5.7 (MariaDB 10.2).

3 Simple Steps to Install Mautic 3:

Install the packages required to run Mautic 3.
Install Mautic 3 and run the configuration wizard.
Install Mautic 3 Cron Jobs.

How to Reset Lost Mautic Administrator Password

Yosu Cadilla
January 25, 2021August 6, 2022
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If you have forgotten or lost your Mautic Administrator Password, or if after an update your login has stopped working. Mautic can send you an email with a link for you to create a new password.
But what if your email settings are missing or do not work propely anymore? Bad news, there is no way to recover it or change it from the UI.

However, if you have SSH access to your Mautic instance, you can directly modify the database, you won’t be able to see the stored password, but you can overwrite the existing password or even better, add a new user directly into the database here’s how:

[Solved] Maxmind GeoLite2 & GeoIP Database Auto-Update | 2020.

Yosu Cadilla
June 26, 2020June 26, 2020
48 Comments

If you just installed Mautic in 2020, you might have noticed the Maxmind IP lookup doesn’t seem to work anymore. That’s because Maxmind has changed the method to obtain the latest updated databases from them.
The difference is simple, now you need to provide your credentials, but it completely changes the process to update your IP database.

In this post you’ll find 5 simple steps to fix the Maxmind Geolite2 and GeoIP issue in under 10 minutes, so you can make your Mautic installation compliant with the new process and automate obtaining the Geolite2 database for your Mautic installation.

Mautic Update How-To: Don’t Click that Button!

Yosu Cadilla
October 18, 2019May 21, 2020
7 Comments

Flawless Mautic upgrades every time! Not an impossible dream, just a simple step by step guide…
You might be already suffering the consequences of an incomplete Mautic update without knowing about it!
Just make sure you don’t click that button yet!!! There’s a better way…

Mautic Installation: Mautic Hardware Requirements

Yosu Cadilla
October 17, 2019May 21, 2020
15 Comments

The adequate amount of hardware resources you need for your Mautic installation will depend on the Mautic features you’ll be using.

Find out how to accurately forecast the Mautic Requirements for your next Mautic installation and prevent Mautic from running slow.

As a Mautic Ops freelancer and Systems Architect, I have encountered several perfectly OK Mautic installations that where just terribly slow (to the point of not being usable anymore) but otherwise perfectly OK, what usually happens is that the new server is dimensioned accordingly to some basic rules, like 1GB of RAM for every 10K users. This way of forecasting your Mautic hardware requirements is too simplistic and will inevitably lead you to a slow-running Mautic installation.

Mautic 3 Cron Jobs – The Full Guide.

Yosu Cadilla
February 1, 2020October 6, 2020
27 Comments

Mautic cron jobs automate several repetitive tasks that Mautic needs to perform in order to run properly. Mautic Cron jobs also allow you to control the timings on each of those processes.

This is the complete and most updated guide on Mautic 3 Cron jobs, now revisited after Mautic 3, so you can take Mautic Cron Jobs to the top-level and automate Mautic tasks with Crontab.

This is a 3-level series about Mautic Cron Jobs, each guide is suited for users with different levels of skills: Newbie, Rookie, and PRO.

Mautic Hosting: Mautic Self Hosted Best Practices

Yosu Cadilla
January 12, 2019May 22, 2020

Mautic will run on any server that supports PHP and a MySQL compatible database, which is little short of saying it will run anywhere, you could run it on Linux, Windows, you could run it on your phone, what the heck! you could probably run it on your smart coffee maker!

But should you? Of course not, your coffee maker runs java! hehehe.

Now seriously, which is the best platform to run Mautic? As always, it depends, so I will try to give you enough pointers for you to choose the best option for your own situation.

Secure Mautic Installation on a VPS in 2020

Yosu Cadilla
January 28, 2020May 22, 2020
64 Comments

UPDATED on January, 28 – 2020, for Mautic 2.15.3

This is a basic but production-ready Mautic installation tutorial, that you can run in a SMALL production environment with real data from your customers. This tutorial keeps everything as simple as possible but will require some basic understanding of the Linux command line.

Mautic Backup for Dummies & Marketers too

Yosu Cadilla
May 30, 2018May 22, 2020
6 Comments

There’s much more to making backups than just copying files, as you probably know, you need a backup strategy. In this post, I’m not going to enter in detail on the strategic part. Anyway, I’m going to abide by the most basic and indispensable elements of a backup strategy, that is so, if you ever need your data, you have a certain guarantee that your data will remain available to you when most needed.

I’m going to start with a little bit of theory, I know it’s boring, but it will let you understand what you’re doing in the second part when we start using the console and giving instructions to the server.