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About Mixpost Lite

Mixpost Lite is the free version of Mixpost.

This repository is the standalone application with the Laravel Package of Mixpost Lite pre-installed and configured.

Mixpost has 3 packages:

Lite (Personal use only)
Pro Team (Business use)
Pro SaaS (Launch your own SaaS and start generating revenue)

Do you want a more advanced version? Mixpost Pro is under development and will be released soon. Sign up to be notified when it's released mixpost.app.

Requirements

PHP 8.1 or higher
Database (eg: MySQL, PostgresSQL, SQLite)
Redis 6.2 or higher
Web Server (eg: Apache, Nginx, IIS)
URL Rewrite (eg: mod_rewrite for Apache)

Installation

Install Mixpost Lite with composer:

composer create-project inovector/MixpostApp

Configure the app url

You will need to modify the value of the APP_URL in the .env file to your project URL.

For example: APP_URL=https://your-domain.com

Configure the database

You will need to modify the values of the DB_* entries in the .env file to make sure they are aligned with your database.

Then, run migration to create all tables.

php artisan migrate

Create the first user

After that you can create an initial user by executing:

php artisan mixpost-auth:create

You can log in to Mixpost at /mixpost using the user account you created.

Server configuration (Manual)

Please do not skip the server configuration step as it is important for Mixpost to work well.

Server configuration Guide

Docker Installation

We provide you two methods of installing the Mixpost using Docker:

Pull Docker image.
Build Docker image on your machine and have full control.

Pull Docker image

This is the most suitable method, see image on docker hub, there are also the installation instructions. You can use Portainer to install Mixpost Lite or simply by creating a docker-composer.yml file.

Build Docker Image on your machine

You can build a docker image that will have all server configurations and start the containers.

This method is mostly for developers. If you decide to install Mixpost using this method, it means that you know what you are doing.

Download the latest version of Mixpost Lite from here, copy .env.example to .env, and fill in all the necessary values:

APP_PORT=80
UID=1000 // Your local user id, you can find it this way: id -u
GID=1000 // Your local group id, you can find it this way: id -g

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null

Important: the DB_HOST must be mysql and REDIS_HOST must be redis.

Attention! If you have already installed the project with composer composer create-project inovector/MixpostApp, you can avoid step 3 below.

1. Build Mixpost Lite image & Run the containers:

docker-compose up -d

IMORTANT NOTE!

If you are logged in as the root user on your machine, you must make sure that the user in the container is the owner of the files:

docker-compose exec -it app bash

# If the command above cannot log you into the container:
# `docker ps`, and identify the mixpost container name
# docker exec -it {mixpost_container_name} bash

chown -R mixpost:mixpost /var/www/html

exit

2. Make the binary `mixpost` file executable:

chmod +x ./docker/mixpost

This binary will help you to avoid the long command docker-compose exec -it -u mixpost app. If you don't want to use this binary, you are free to use docker-compose command.

3. Execute these commands one by one to setup Mixpost Lite:

./docker/mixpost composer install
./docker/mixpost php artisan key:generate
./docker/mixpost php artisan mixpost:setup-gitignore
./docker/mixpost php artisan queue:batches-table
./docker/mixpost php artisan storage:link
./docker/mixpost php artisan queue:restart

If you are reading for production, you cache the config and routes:

./docker/mixpost php artisan config:cache
./docker/mixpost php artisan route:cache

Do not forget to restart the queue after caching: ./docker/mixpost php artisan queue:restart

4. And then you can migrate all tables:

./docker/mixpost php artisan migrate

5. Create the first user:

./docker/mixpost php artisan mixpost-auth:create