Install Sendy in a subdomain in DigitalOcean

Requirements

• DigitalOcean
• DNSMadeEasy
• Sendy
• Vesta
• Bitbucket

Installations Steps

1. Login to DNSMadeEasy to find a domain e.g. nascentnexus.com

2. Go to DNS dropdown option and choose "Managed DNS"

   

3. Enter the domain you have in mind in the search box on the left

   

4. You are now the domain control panel. We will go back to this after we create a digitalocean droplet

5. Log in to your digitalocean account and click the "Create Droplet" button at the top

6. Choose from options below

   

7. In the hostname, enter the you choose on the DNSMadeEasy step, e.g. sample.nascentnexus.com

8. Wait for the droplet to finish installation

   

9. When it's done copy the IP Address

10. Go back to DNSMadeEasy domain control panel and enter the IP address when you create an "A Record"

    

11. You should see the submdomain you created in the "A Records List"

    

12. Open terminal and ping the submodomain you created to make sure the IP Address is correct

    

13. We now SSH into our digitalocean droplet.

    ![Screen Shot 2016-01-21 at 10.12.29 PM]!(images/Screen Shot 2016-01-21 at 10.12.29 PM.png)

14. We need to download Vesta for our sendy requirements

15. Run this command in your terminal

    wget http://vestacp.com/pub/vst-install.sh

16. You should get a file name vst-install.sh

    

17. To run the installer, copy this command

    bash vst-install.sh --nginx no --apache yes --phpfpm no --vsftpd no --proftpd no --exim no --dovecot no --spamassassin no --clamav no --named no --iptables no --fail2ban no --mysql yes --postgresql no --remi no --quota no
    

18. Press y to continue, and add intented email

    

19. Just press return/enter to continue

20. The setup will proceed. Wait until you see the screen below.

    

21. Save the credentials to our horse table document

22. Log in to your Vesta Control Panel. Click "Advanced" to see the options below, and proceed.

    

23. Log in with the credentials you have earlier when you finish the installation.

    

24. Go to the "WEB" menu, and "Edit" our domain.

    

25. Click the "IP Address" option to pick the IP Address of our droplet and save

    

26. Check your domain, it should output something like below

    

27. SSH back to your droplet

28. Go to your public_html folder of your domain, replace the sample.nascentnexus.com with your own subdomain.domain.com

    cd /home/admin/web/sample.nascentnexus.com/public_html
    

    

29. Log in to your bitbucket account and go to our sendy repository

30. Clone using HTTPS to our public_html folder

    git clone https://[email protected]/iamarmanjon/sendy.git
    

31. You should be prompt by your bitbucket password, enter to proceed

32. You should see the sendy folder in your current directory, go inside of this folder.

    

33. We need to create an uploads folder and change it's permission

    mkdir uploads && chmod -R 777 uploads
    

34. Go back to Vesta Control Panel, we need to create an account for our database

35. Go to the DB menu and click the (+) button to add a database

    

36. Enter the credentials, note: the database name and user is on the right, they have admin as a prefix

    

37. Go back to our sendy folder

38. We need to edit our sendy credentials, open includes/config.php

    nano includes/config.php
    

39. We need to edit the following: APP_PATH, $dbHost, $dbUser, $dbPass, $dbName. We created those in our Vesta Control Panel.

40. Make sure that the details you have are correct, below is a sample after the changes made.

    

41. To save the document, Control + X then Y and Enter/Return

42. We can now setup sendy by going to the our APP_PATH url e.g. sample.nascentnexus.com/sendy

43. You should see the screen like this, enter the needed credentials from our horse stable

    

44. If successful you should be on a login screen

    

45. Enter the details and that ends our Sendy installation guide.