Learn How To Install Mailtrain Newsletter Application on Debian 9
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Mailtrain is an open-source self hosted newsletter app built on Node.js and MySQL/MariaDB. Mailtrain’s source is on GitHub. This guide will show you how to install Mailtrain on a fresh Debian 9 IT Web Services instance.
Requirements
Software Requirements:
- Node.js version 7 or greater
- MySQL version 5.5
- Nginx
- Redis (optional)
Hardware Requirements:
- 1 vCPU
- 1024 MB RAM
Check the Debian version.
lsb_release -ds
# Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch)
Ensure that your system is up to date.
apt update && apt upgrade -y
Install required packages.
apt install -y sudo dirmngr build-essential unzip git
Create a new non-root user account with sudo
access and switch to it.
adduser johndoe --gecos "John Doe"
usermod -aG sudo johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Set up the timezone.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Install Node.js and NPM
Install Node.js by utilizing the NodeSource APT repository.
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt install -y nodejs
Check the Node.js and npm versions.
node -v && npm -v
# v8.11.3
# 5.6.0
Install MariaDB
Install MariaDB.
sudo apt install -y mariadb-server
Check the version.
mysql --version
Run the mysql_secure installation
script to improve MariaDB security.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Connect to the MariaDB shell as the root user.
sudo mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Create an empty MariaDB database and user, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Install Nginx
Install Nginx.
sudo apt install -y nginx
Check the version.
sudo nginx -v
Configure Nginx as an HTTP
or HTTPS
(if you use SSL) reverse proxy for Mailtrain application. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/mailtrain.conf
and add the following configuration.
server {
listen [::]:80;
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
charset utf-8;
client_max_body_size 50M;
location / {
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_next_upstream error timeout http_502 http_503 http_504;
}
}
Activate the new mailtrain.conf
configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled
directory.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mailtrain.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Install Mailtrain
Create an empty document root folder where Mailtrain should be installed.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/mailtrain
Navigate to the document root folder.
cd /var/www/mailtrain
Change ownership of the /var/www/mailtrain
folder to user johndoe
.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/mailtrain
Download and unzip Mailtrain.
wget https://github.com/Mailtrain-org/mailtrain/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
rm master.zip
mv mailtrain-master/* . && mv mailtrain-master/.* .
rmdir mailtrain-master
Run npm install --production
in the Mailtrain folder to install required dependencies.
Copy config/default.toml
as config/production.toml
and update MySQL and any other settings in it.
cp config/default.toml config/production.toml
vim config/production.toml
Run the server.
NODE_ENV=production npm start
Installation is complete. Login with the username admin
and the password test
. Once logged in, update the user information and password via the Mailtrain web interface.
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