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It’s a login screen, so that is good news. Let’s type in our username and password. All right. We’ve got our dashboard up and running here. It looks like Mautic is good to go. Let’s click around through some of the menu screens here. We can see it’s nice and snappy because we have that dedicated server to run. It was up, guys, Dave, from Profitable Tools here and in this video, I’m going to be showing you how to set up Mautic on your own dedicated VPS.
Now, I have talked a lot about Mautic over in our Facebook group. People are really excited about using it. So I created a separate standalone video from this to help you decide whether Mautic is a good fit for your business. Now, this is definitely a DIY approach to email marketing automation. You’re going to be running your own server. You’re going to be responsible for keeping an online secure and all of that, all of the responsibility that comes along with managing your own client.
So this is not going to be for everyone. And if you’re unsure about this, make sure you check out that other video before you go ahead and dove in with this. But you know what? If you’re adventurous and you just want to try it out and get your hands wet with command line, you definitely can do that. Now, that said, this is going to be fairly technical, but you don’t need to be a developer or a systems administrator to follow along with what I’m doing.
I’m actually following a guide myself, so I want to give credit where credit is due. This is one of my favorite sites for Mautic. It’s got tons of helpful information. This is my team dog and I’m gonna be following along with their guide Secure Mautic installation on a VPS in 2020. So if all that sounds good and you’re with me, let’s get going. I’m going to recommend that use Vulture as your VPS for this installation. Now, I know there’s going to be a segment of the audience that’s just going to ignore this advice and they’re going to try to set up Mautic using something like soft vacuoles on a shared hosting site.
And it’s going to cost you two dollars in 99 cents a month. And you know what? You’re probably going to run into issues before long and then you’ll think that Mautic is junk. And it turns out that Mautic is just more resource intensive than you provided it with a shared hosting plan. So you don’t have to use Vulture. Of course, I’ll link to Vulture down below. You don’t have to use Valtierra, but you do need a high quality cloud hosting platform, something like RWC, Vulture, Google Cloud.
Those are all great choices. Digital Ocean. I know there’s a lot of digital ocean fans out there as well. So I’m using Vulture’s today and I’m gonna recommend using one of their new high frequency VPs. I like those. I’m going to choose Chicago that is nearby me and it’s the only reason for choosing it. You can choose a server location that suits you. Then we’re going to go ahead and choose Ubuntu down here. And I want to do eighteen point zero four.
I’m going to go and choose this middle plan. I think that’s a great place to start. You can scale up a little bit as your installation gets a lot bigger. Since this is not going to be a free deal, you’re not going to get any sort of free email marketing here. It’s going to cost you twelve bucks a month. Not a huge price, especially when you compare it to something like, you know, hundreds or thousands of dollars for a similar to active campaign account.
So just keep that in mind. Additional features you can turn on IPV six, if you like, though it’s not really necessary. We turn on auto backups here. That is going to be an additional two dollars and forty cents a month. But I recommend it because it just always provides a backup of your installation. Next, go down to SS Keys and we’re going down to the bottom here and it choose, add and new. Now I do recommend creating a different SS for every single server that you spin up, so you might have a lot of them on your count.
Now, how do you generate an SS? Well, I’ve got a link for that as well. There’s a great article here from Vulture showing you exactly what to do. Now, here is where some people might start to get a little bit concerned because we’re going to need a client here that’s able to connect via S.H. If you’re on a Mac, good news because we can do everything we need right from terminal, which is a built in application. You can find it by pressing command space and typing in terminal.
Then it’ll open up right here. If you’re on windows, you’re going to need to download putty. So go past the video and type in T.Y. and grab that application right now. Now, let’s head back to our vulture document. If you’re on Windows, you can follow along with this section right here on creating a SocialBee using putty. Gennie, different application, but I’m going to be doing it on Linux right here. So if you’re a Mac, think Linux and you’re just going to copy and paste this command right into a terminal window.
Now, next, it’s going to ask which file to save the key in. By default, it’s going to save a file inside of your user account inside of a hidden folder called SNH. And then here is the file name ID underscore RSA. This is just fine if this is the only server you ever plan on having. But remember, I recommend creating a unique key for each server that you manage. So let’s go ahead and rename this file to be unique to our Mautic installation.
So I went ahead and typed out the entire file path and I just added underscore apte, underscore Mautic so that I can remember which server this key is for now going to return. You can enter a passphrase if you want or you can leave it empty. There we go. RSA has been generated. Now the next step is going to be to navigate to that folder where it was saved. Remember, it’s inside of your user account, inside of a hidden folder called S.H. So here is a finder window on Mac.
With my user account, you can navigate to the same thing in windows and then on a Mac, I’m in a press shift command period and that’s going to show all of my hidden files. If you’re on Windows, I’ll link to how to show your hidden folders in the description. So here is our SS folder. I mean, open this. I’ve got two files here, one that doesn’t seem to have a file extension at first glance and another one that ends in a pub.
Now, basically what you’re looking at here is the one without a file extension is going to be your private key. You don’t want to show this to anyone. It’s going to give access to your server. The one that ends in a pub is your public key, and this is what you’ll actually have to share with the server. So let’s open this up right now just with a text editor. All right. Here is my public key. I’m just going to copy this and we’ll close up the window.
Now let’s head back to Vulture. Remember, we opened up this ad Stackby inside of the AdLaunch process for our server. We still haven’t actually got that up and running yet. Let’s go ahead and name RSS. Just give this a name that you can recognize and then paste in that key that we just copied. Now, very important here. Make sure there’s no extra line breaks or spaces. If you’re copying it out of the text editor, you’re almost always going to have an extra return at the end.
So just remove that and then hit add as HQ. All right. We are now ready to deploy our server. Notice that this is going to cost us fourteen dollars and forty cents a month to run. Will be able to have tens of thousands of contacts on this server. Let’s go ahead and deploy now. All right. My server is up and running. I can see the IP address right here. I’m going to go ahead and click that to copy it.
I did notice that I forgot to set a label when setting this up. So let me just go and add this right now so that I can easily identify it from my overview screen. Let’s go ahead and check this box. So next, we need to add a DNS record to our DNS settings. For me, this is going to be done on DNS. Made it easy for you. It’s probably something like GoDaddy or Ninn cheap. Or if you have a shared hosting plan with something like site ground or in motion, you might actually be managing your DNS records over there.
So find out where your DNS records are and then go to add a new a record type in the name of the subdomain that you want here. I’m going to go with go. You can really enter anything you want in here and then enter your IP address. You’re just going to copy and paste that from the Volter dashboard and hit submit. All right. We’re now ready to connect to our server via S.H., so let’s fire up a fresh terminal window here.
That’s where a vulture guide. We’re going to scroll down to the section on Connecting to our Assets HQ. If you’re on Windows, there are some specific directions for using PUDI. If you’re using Linux or Mac OS, here are the directions you’re going to want to follow. We’ll go ahead and copy this command. Now, notice that everything after it is the actual path to RSS. He and then the username and IP address of our server. So we don’t really need this whole thing, in fact is sure enough that we can just type it.
So let’s go back over to the terminal window. We’ll type in Astra H Dash. I leave a space and now here we’re going to need to type in or you can actually just drag and drop the file for your Ezgi to get that file path into the terminal window. So I’m going to open up my finder. We know this is the easiest way that I know of to do. It will open up the finder window and we’ll navigate to that SSL folder once again.
And here I’m going to drag and drop the public file. Remember, we want the public file, not the private key, and it will drag and drop that over here and then we’ll type in route at and then we’re going to need the IP address back from Vulture. So we’ll jump back over to our chrome window here and go to our IP address. Copy this one more time if you don’t already have it handy and paste that in. All right, let’s press return.
I was going to ask you if you want to continue saying that they’re not sure that it’s an authentic post, but that’s OK. This is just the initial connection testing to make sure that everything is what you think it is. So go ahead and type. Yes. Next, you’re going to need to enter your root password. Let’s go back over to the vulture window and can see the passwords right down here. It will copy this and just paste it in.
And there we go. We’re actually connected to our server via S.H. here. We have complete control of the system and can set up a Web server and install Mautic back over to our machine guide. In fact, this is the first time we’re really doing anything from this. And we’re going to go down to the section on configuring a firewall. That’s the first step he recommends to make sure that your server is secured. Now, there are two ways to approach this.
You can do an external firewall, which is basically set up through your cloud provider, something like Vulture or if using Adewusi, you can do that there. But there’s also the option to do it internally running on the software. And actually we can do it both ways. So let’s go ahead and set up the internal firewall first and then I’ll show you how to do it inside of the vulture window as well. We’re not going to copy some commands here.
Pseudo CEU. Then this command is going to allow a port two point 22 is the port that we’re connected via SSA. So it’s a very important one to leave open. All right. The rules have been updated and now we’re actually going to turn on the firewall by copying and pasting. This command now gives you the warning that this might interrupt your connection while we’ve opened the port. So we don’t really have to worry about this. Let’s just type Y for.
Yes and return. All right. We’re still connected. So good news there. Now, if you want to set up a firewall on vulture, head over to settings and then go down to the firewall here, you’re going to need to set up a firewall group, which is basically a list of ports that you want open to this specific server. So to do this, let’s go ahead and hit manage next to a firewall where we can create our first group, hit the plus button right here to add a firewall group.
I’ll call this Mautic. Now, I don’t recommend, you know, creating a unique firewall group. Every single server, you’re probably going to have some presets that you’re going to reuse across multiple servers, but for the sake of this video, I can keep track of which one it is. Let’s add a firewall group here. And now we’re just going to add some rules now. Let’s set it up both for IPV for as well as IPV six.
Let’s go ahead and add S.H. All we have to do is hit plus here. Then we’ll also want to add htp it plus and then we’ll also want to add A s and hit plus. Great. Now we can see we have Kautz 20 to 80 and 443 open through our external firewall. We’re going to repeat the same process over under IPV six rules. Twenty two eighty and four for three for VPS. All right, well all done here. Let’s go ahead and add this arrow to return back to our screen.
All right. We’re all done. Let’s go back to the settings screen under our server and let’s go down to firewall. And here we can find our group that we just created, Mautic underscore peaty. And let’s go ahead and update that firewall group update. And now our site is secure from any traffic outside of ports. Twenty two, eighty and four for three. All right. Now our next step is basically going to be copying and pasting a lot of commands from this guide.
The first one is going to be to upgrade our server to make sure we have all of the latest software installed. So I’m going to copy and paste that command. It’s going to go ahead and install here. This might take 30 seconds to a minute or so. All right, great. My updates are done. Let’s go to the next command in the guide. Now, this command is going to install all of the required software to run Mautic.
So that’s basically going to be Maria DB as well as Apache. Go ahead and paste this in and return. All right. The next command activates some Apache modules. Let’s go ahead and do that and make sure that that new configuration is active. Let’s just copy and paste this command right in from the terminal screen. And that’s all done now. We’re going to actually download and install Mautic. So we need to navigate to the HTML directory, just copy and paste that command in here.
And there are three separate commands to run. The first one is going to download Mautic. Now, if you’re very savvy about Mautic, you follow along with their development. You might notice that we are not downloading the most current version. We’re downloading two point one five point three, whereas the newest release version is two point one six point two as of the recording of this video. And Mautic three is in beta. So why are we doing this slightly older version?
Well, it’s because it’s the most current stable release, according to the Montenegran website. This is the version that they recommend. And you know what? I think they’re right. I’ve tested at zero point one, six point two, and it doesn’t seem quite as stable. I’m getting a lot more errors. So I’m going to go with this version for right now. Let’s paste that command into our terminal window. And the file is now downloading directly from GitHub onto our server.
Only takes a second. Then we’re going to go ahead and unzip this file. Mautic has a lot of files, so unzipping does take just a second. The next command actually removes that zip file from the server. Let’s copy and paste that one next. We have a couple commands related to file permissions. We’ll just paste that in the next man downloads this configuration file from the Mod team website for your Apache server. This makes it very, very easy to get the configuration set for Mautic.
Let’s go and paste this in and the next command moves that file. We just download it and rename it. So it’s the proper configuration file for our server. So if you need to find the server configuration later on, it’s going to be in this file structure. Paste that in here return. Now we need to create a database for Mautic. We’ll copy this in return. And now we’re inside of Maria DB and that’s where we will be running the next few commands here.
We’re going to copy everything that is in blue. You’re not going to copy in the Maria DB That’s just to let you know, that’s the application. We’re actually running the command from now here. We’re creating a database called Mautic. You could rename this if you want to use the keys to go back and call it something else. You certainly could do that for security purposes. It might help you out just a little bit for me. I’m going to roll with Mautic.
I think that is just fine. Return next, we’re going to grant permissions on Mautic to our route user and we’ll actually be setting up a password for Maria DB. So let’s copy and paste that into our terminal window. Now, you’ll probably want to go through here and set this to the actual password you want. All right. That’s all I’m going to change. And no, that is not a actual password. I would use a couple more commands here.
Let’s flush the privileges and then exit. All right. Now we’re back to our standard command line interface and we’re going to go ahead and secure Maria DB by running this command. Next, we’ll need to type in the password that we just set a moment ago. For me, that was profitable. I’ll type that in. You won’t see anything on the screen because it’s hidden now. It’s going to ask us if we want to change that password right away.
It says, because we just set a root password, we don’t need to do that so we can press. And for no, there’s going to be a series of questions that come up. And all you need to know early is you’re just going to hit return for all of them, which will give you the default answer of yes, great. Our Maria DB database is now secured. Next year we’re going to do is open up Port EDD on our internal firewall placed in this command right here.
And here’s where I’m going to differ just slightly from this guide. I’m going to go down to the bottom where we actually open up a port, four for three as well. We might as well do that while we’re opening up ports. And now to be sure that all of the ports are all. And we can enter this command in right here. So here we get a nice list. Remember, this is the internal firewall. So we actually have two layers of firewall.
We have our external firewall and our internal firewall, which is running on our Apache server. We’ve got ports 22 and 1844 for three open on both IPV four as well as IPV six. So that’s exactly what we want to see here. Should look like this as well. And we will go back up to this section and finish things up here. But you know what? Let’s go ahead and get our SSL certificate installed beforehand. Before we even get into Mautic, we’ll copy and paste this command here to install Sopot hit return and Support is now installing this next command is to upgrade the repo.
Just make sure everything’s up to date. That’s all done. And now we’re actually going to install support from the repo that we just set up in return for us. Then we’re going to paste in this command here, which will actually do the set up and create the SSL certificate for us. Notice there is a domain at the end. You’ll need to change that to the domain that you picked at the beginning of this video when we were setting up our DNS server.
All right. So I’ve entered in my domain. Let’s go ahead and return. It’s going to ask for your email address and type that in agree to the terms and services. Opt in for the Electronic Frontier Foundation to contact you if you like. I’m going to choose. No, I’ve already opted in before. Now, if you get an error message like this, it means that you didn’t follow along with the beginning of the video. When we set up our record in our DNS provider, remember, that’s probably GoDaddy or name cheap for you.
So make sure you go back to that part of the video. Set that up. Now, if you’re still having trouble, you can head over to this website. What’s my DNS, Dannette? I’ve mentioned this in several of my videos. It’s a site where you can go and check the propagation status for any DNS records that you create and see that mine has almost fully propagated here. Have one location holding out over in Texas. So had run this one more time that one hasn’t updated.
But you know what? I’m probably in pretty good shape here, so I’m going to head back over to my terminal window and run the command again to issue the SSL certificate, performing the challenge, waiting for verification, cleaning up the challenges. And I’ve got the SSL certificate now installed. Now, I’ve got a couple of options here to go ahead and answer. The first one is whether I want to redirect traffic or not while I’m going to go ahead and choose option two, which is to redirect traffic.
All right, great. So my certificate has been issued, but there is one more task we have in relation to the SSL certificate, and that is the SSL certificate will eventually expire, but we can run a command to have it automatically renew. Luckily, the team dog guide has us covered here. So let’s go ahead and copy and paste this command into the terminal window. All right. It says congratulations. All renewals succeeded. So that script will now run automatically for us so that we don’t need to worry about updating our SSL certificate.
All right. Now, we’re going to actually go back to the section we skipped in the guide and do the configuration wizard for Mautic. So let’s head back up here and we’ll open up a new tab and type in our domain name and success. We are all ready to go. Does have one configuration recommendation. This is just to set the time zone and I’m just going to skip that for now. We can do that from inside. Mautic is not a big deal if we don’t set it Adpage like they’re suggesting we go the next step here.
Now, in this step, we’re going to need to connect Mautic to our database that we created earlier in this video. So remember, I said you could rename that database if you want. Well, remember, whatever you named it, you’ll have to type that here for me. I left it as the default Mautic our username was root. And enter your password here. If you remember, mine was profitable. You leave everything else as is in the next step.
Now the screen, we’re just creating some user credentials. So this will be your administrator name. Enter your first and last name as well as your email address. This is not your sending email address. You have an option to set that up in a second. This is just the administrative email address. Now, in this screen, we can configure the email to send from I’m just going to leave it as is, but if you have a different sender, you could configure that.
Right now, we also have the option to configure our mail or transfer it. Now, I do recommend Amazon s yes, but that is a topic for another video. So leave your comment down below if you want to see that Amazon CBS set up video for Mautic as is, I’m going to leave it as WP Amelia. We can always configure this later on. And let’s go to next step. It’s a login screen, so that is good news.
Let’s type in our username and password. All right. We’ve got our dashboard up and running here. It looks like Mautic is good to go. Let’s click around through some of the menu screens here. We can see it’s nice and snappy because we have that dedicated server to run Mautic. Now, we are not done yet. There’s actually still one task left in our setup guide and it’s very important we do not want to skip this. It’s to install the current jobs.
Now, what are crown jobs? Basically, it’s scheduling tasks at the server level to make sure your application is going to run properly. So for Mautic, there are three required Krans in the essentially make sure your contacts stay up to date as they might move from different segments based on their actions on your website. And it also sets up the ability to send broadcast scheduled emails so that your campaigns go out on time. You definitely need to do this in order for Mautic to work properly.
Now there are only three required cron jobs for Mautic to run properly, but there are other optional jobs you may want to configure and that would be for another video. Let me know if you’re interested in that down below. All right. So let’s go ahead and install cron jobs. The Mautic. Way, which is by far the easiest way to install ground jobs that I’ve ever come across. So we’re just going to copy and paste this line, which is basically a set of jobs, the three essential ones from his website.
Right. So this is coming from his WordPress site. And it’s just going to download to our server and then we’ll load it up into our jobs. So let’s go back to our terminal window and we’ll paste in this command. There are cron job text has downloaded and we’ll grab the next command and paste this in and our current jobs are all loaded. That is the easiest way by far. I have seen it to load up on jobs for Mautic.
All right, that’s it. Congratulations. Your Mautic installation is complete. You’re free to use it however you see fit, although I suggest you do so responsibly. But that begs a question. How do you actually use this thing? How can we connect it up to our site? How can we create drip campaigns or broadcast things like that? Well, I’d be happy to create content to show you how to do that. You just got to leave me a comment down below and let me know what you want to see.
And I’ll consider making that video that’s going to do it for this video. I hope it’s been helpful. I know it’s been a lot of back and forth in terms of, you know, going between the guides, copying and pasting. I will definitely link to those guides in the description so you can do so at your own pace. I’ll also include a link to Vulture, which will be the referral link for this channel. I want to support us out.
Click that before creating a new vulture account. Thanks for watching. I hope it’s been helpful. And I’ll see you in the next video.
