Install Sendy on DigitalOcean 2022

sendy-install-digital-ocean.md

You can open the Marketplace tab and search for the current LAMP stack.

We will use the LAMP stack on a Basic plan for 5$/month.

php -v

# if php 8 then
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php8.0-curl
sudo apt-get install php8.0-curl
apt-get install php-xml
sudo apt-get install php8.0-xml
systemctl restart apache2
sudo systemctl reload nginx
sudo service apache2 restart

# Set up A record for domain and then
certbot --apache -d sub.domain.com
# certbot --nginx -d sub.domain.com -d www.sub.domain.com

mysql

# Run the following four linces copied/pasted at once.
create database sendy;
CREATE USER 'sendy_admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASS_HERE';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'sendy_admin'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;


# - Setup sendy/includes/config.php file
# Copy sendy to server
# - `rsync -av Downloads/sendy/ root@DO_IP_HERE:/var/www/html/`

chmod 777 /var/www/html/uploads/

sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart

# Now access your domain to install.

Still works in 2023! Couple of comments for people using this:

1. sudo apt-get install php8.0-curl runs twice in this script, that's unnecessary.
2. sudo systemctl reload nginx is not necessary in the current version of the LAMP stack from DO Marketplace, so I skipped this one after it failed.
3. Make sure to set up an A-record already to your Droplet, otherwise certbot fails while trying to create a certificate. I linked my domain to DigitalOcean, and then you can just let DigitalOcean create the records.
4. I had an issue after all the steps that when I got on the page, I got this error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /var/www/html/includes/functions.php(1). Following the steps in this article, I got it to work by running sudo apt-get install php-curl and then restart apache using systemctl restart apache2 and sudo service apache2 restart to be sure.