How to install phpList

Welcome to our multi article tutorial on installing and using phpList. phpList is free software that you can install and use on your account to send one way mailing lists.

In this phpList tutorial series, we will:

1. Install and configure phpList
2. Create a form which users will subscribe to our lists
3. Place a "Subscribe to our Mailing List" form to our testing site, phplist.inmotiontesting.com. This testing site is ran using WordPress.
4. Send a message to our mailing list

Step 1. Create your phpList email account

The first thing you'll need to do is create an email account. This email account will be used to handle any bounce back messages. An email will bounce back if you have an invalid email address subscribed to one of your mailing lists. In our example, we created newsletter@phplist.inmotiontesting.com

Step 2. Install phpList

After you have created an email account, you'll need to do is install phplist. We'll be installing phpList into a subdirectory call phplist, so it will be located at phplist.inmotiontesting.com/phplist

1. Log into your cPanel
2. Click the, "Softaculous" button.
3. Go to MAILS and then select  "PHPlist" in the lefthand menu
4. Click on "Install"
   1. Enter your installation details. We entered the following information:
      

      Choose Protocol	Select HTTP, unless you have purchased an SSL certificate and it setup already
      Install in directory	Select the diretory where you wish to install PHPlist.  If you're using the primary domain then leave it blank
      Administrator username	Select an admin user name (by default it is "admin")
      Administrator password	Select an admin password (by default it is "password")
      Admin Email	Add an Admin email (it defaults to admin@imhsupport.com)
      Database name	Choose a database name for the PHPlist installation (default = phplist)
      Tabel prefix	Choose table prefix (default = pl_)
      Cron job settings	Leave blank unless you have a specific time you wish to setup for a Cron job to run this application

5. Softaculous gives you the option of sending you an email with the details of your installation. We recommend entering your email address to receive the details of the installation.
6. Complete the installation procedure by clicking on INSTALL at the bottom of the page after filling out all of the details.
   
   For further information (and more detail) on loading phpList in Softaculous, please go to Install phpList with Softaculous.

Congratulations, phpList is now installed! If you visit your phpList installation, in our scenario phplist.inmotiontesting.com/phplist, you should see a screen similar to: