Mautic Installation in AWS Plesk

• Add a new domain

• Click on ‘Blank website’

• Select Temporary domain name and click add domain

• After adding a domain with a temporary domain name you will see a page like this.
• Now click on Hosting and DNS
• we will add an SSL certificate later

• The domain name will be like this if your marketing domain is ‘yourdomain.com’ then you can write ‘marketing.yourdomain.com’ or ‘mautic.yourdomain.com’ or as you wish

• Copy this IP address

• Add two ‘A’ type records to your Domain name provider.
• one for the subdomain ‘marketing’ and add another for ‘www.marketing’ with type ‘A’ and the same IP address

• Click on ‘SSL/TLS Certificates ‘
• Then click on Reissue Certificate

• Scroll down to the bottom and click install, this is a free SSL provided by Let’s Encrypt.

• Create a new email address using your domain name like ‘[email protected]’ and use this email here
• Then click ‘Get it free’
• After the successful installation of SSL, your domain will be secure.

Step 3: Install Mautic in your domain

• In your plesk dashboard click on Extensions’ and then search for ‘Softaculous Auto Installer’
• click on open

• After opening softaculos dashboard, search for ‘mautic’ and then click on Mautic

• After opening mautic click on ‘Install Now’

• After that give the installation URL like choose protocol ‘https://’ and choose Domain ‘marketing.yourdomain.com’ and in the directory field keep it blank.
• Fill the other necessary field as you wish and keep the admin username and password for use later.
• And then click “Install”

• After successful installations, you see like this.
• And click on the administrative URL and log in to mautic and you will see your dashboard

Step 4: Use AWS SES for email service

• Add a user to AWS Identity and Access Management

• Give a user name and select Access key – Programmatic access
• Click next

• select Attach existing policies directly and search for ses full access and select ‘AmazonSESFullAccess’
• Click next

• Click next to skip step 3
• And in step 4 click ‘Create User’

• After successful creation, copy Access key ID and Secret access key

Step 5: Email Configuration in Mautic

• In Mautic dashboard click settings and then click ‘Configuration’

• Click on ‘Email Settings’ and fill the required field
• And click save

• Create an identity in AWS SES
• select an Email address and give the same email that you used in mautic to send emails from
• Next click create identity
• open this email and click the link to activate

• save and click Test connection to test

Step 6: Schedule Task Definations

• In plesk dashboard click scheduled Tasks

• Then click ‘Add Task’

Tasks:

1. • Command: /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/marketing.yourdomain.com/httpdocs/bin/console mautic:segment:update –batch-limit=900
   • Run: 0,15,30,45 * * * *
2. • Command: /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/marketing.yourdomain.com/httpdocs/bin/console mautic:campaigns:trigger
   • Run: 10,25,40,55 * * * *
3. • Command: /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/marketing.yourdomain.com/httpdocs/bin/console mautic:broadcast:send
   • Run: 12,27,42,57 * * * *
4. • Command: /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/marketing.yourdomain.com/httpdocs/bin/console mautic:emails:send
   • Run: 13,28,43,58 * * * *
5. • Command: /opt/plesk/php/7.4/bin/php /var/www/vhosts/marketing.yourdomain.com/httpdocs/bin/console mautic:campaigns:update –batch-limit=100
   • Run: 5,20,35,50 * * * *

• Add these 5 tasks one by one
• after adding you can check the setup by sending a email from mautic
• setup finished.