
phpList Free Newsletter Software
Handy Open Source Newsletter and Email Marketing Software
Send instantly or schedule newsletters, marketing campaigns and announcements by email to a large numbers of subscribers.
phpList has a beautiful web interface with wizard for composing campaign/newsletter and can be personalized for each subscriber. Use plain text, HTML and templates for newsletter. phpList provides features for scheduling and automate campaigns.
phpList is written in PHP and uses MySQL database to store information. The license for this open source newsletter software is AGPL (Affero General Public License).
System Requirements
In order to install phpList, you must have the following softwares:
- PHP 5.3+
- MySQL 5.0 +
- Apache / Nginx
Features
phpList has number of features and some of them are:
Open Source
phpList is open source software which have a large users community which participate in development, bug fixing and plugins. You can have full control over your data by using phpList as open source software.
Designing and Sending
Campaigns can be created in web interface and you can use HTML templates for it. You can schedule your campaigns at any time or send it instantly to subscribers.
Secure
You can have full control on your data and subscribers information by installing phpList at your own server.
Other Features
Some of other important features are:
- Manage Campaigns.
- Statistics.
- Bounce Handling.
- User, Role, and Access Management.
- Internationalization.
- Performance and Reliability.
- Opensource.
- Easy Feature enhancement.
- Data Import & Export Tools.
- Manage Email Lists.
- High-Volume Sending.
- Building and Personalizing Emails.
- WYSIWYG editor.
Installation Instructions
Install phpList on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Nginx
Nginx is the most popular and secure web server. In order to install Nginx, use the following command
sudo apt install nginx
Once the Nginx is install, configure the domain and restart the Nginx by using the following command
sudo service nginx restart
Next, need to install database Server, use the following command to install MySql server
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install mysql-server; mysql_secure_installation
Once, the database server is installed, use the following command to restart MySql server
sudo service mysql restart
Install PHP for processing
sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql
Now, you have installed all the required software and the next step is to login to mysql server and create phplist database. Use following command to create database. Change with your database name.
CREATE DATABASE
Create a database user called "" with new password. and granted user full access to the database by running the following commands. Change with your desired database user and with your desired password.
CREATE USER ''@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '';
GRANT ALL ON .* TO ''@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; EXIT;
Next, run the commands below to download and extract the downloaded file and move it into a new phplist root directory.
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phplist/phplist-3.5.5.zip
unzip phplist-3.5.5.zip
mv phplist-3.5.5/public_html/lists/ /var/www/html/phplist
Edit phplist config.php file. Adjust database and SMTP settings to reflect with your own values.
nano /var/www/html/phplist/config/config.php
Now, Lets configure phpList. Open your browser navigate to your domain name to start configuration of phpList. You should see phpList installation wizard
- Click on the Initialise Database button.
- Enter the your name, organization name, email address, and administrative login user name. The initial login name will be “admin”.
- Once, the initialization is completed, click on the phpList Setup button to start phpList further configuration.
Congrats! You have successfully installed phpList on NGINX