My first serious try to install Mautic 5 - YELLOW and RED errors in composer create project 5 github command

[alexrm1x]

Hello to all,

Thanks for this great community.

I’m in my first serious try to install Mautic 5

I’m familiar with the old Mautic 3 and 4 installs, I manage nearly 20 installs today in 4.x, hosting, domain, DNS, SSL certificates, Mautic, campaigns, etc.

Your software
My Mautic version is: 5.0.4
My PHP version is: 8.3.7
My Database type and version is: MariaDB Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.11.6-MariaDB

My steps:
Debian 12 host on Clouding.io
Webmin already working
Virtualmin already working
Created virtualhost for mautic 5 instance
Configured SSL with Let’s Encrypt, all OK
Apache works, PHP works, PHPINFO show and works. OK

Installed composer from getcomposer.org latest 4 commands OK.
Moved composer to /usr/local/bin for PATH OK
composer command works both executing from ROOT and from mautic user (virtualmin)

composer -V shows version 2.7.6

logged in
created dir mautic in /public_html/
changed working directory to: /public_html/mautic

1st command try:
composer create-project mautic/recommended-project:^5.0 mautic --no-interaction

SHOWED errors on missing PHP modules: IMAP and BCMATH…
installed both under ROOT with:
apt install php8.3-imap OK
apt install php8.3-bcmath OK

Your problem
My problem is:
2nd command try:
composer create-project mautic/recommended-project:^5.0 mautic --no-interaction

These errors are showing in the log:

ERRORs on INSTALLATION LOG:

YELLOW ERROR

Package sensio/framework-extra-bundle is abandoned, you should avoid using it. U se Symfony instead.
Package theofidry/psysh-bundle is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No repla cement was suggested.
Package tightenco/collect is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use illuminat e/collections instead.
Generating autoload files
115 packages you are using are looking for funding.
Use the composer fund command to find out more!

YELLOW ERROR

Deprecation Notice: Return type of Mautic\Composer\Plugin\Scaffold\Operations\Sc affoldFileCollection::getIterator() should either be compatible with IteratorAgg regate::getIterator(): Traversable, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute sh ould be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/mautic/public_html/maut ic/vendor/mautic/core-composer-scaffold/Operations/ScaffoldFileCollection.php:11 8

RED ERRORS

npm ci --prefer-offline --no-audit
sh: 1: npm: not found
Script npm ci --prefer-offline --no-audit handling the npm-ci event returned wit h error code 127
Script @npm-ci was called via post-update-cmd

Steps I have tried to fix the problem:
No idea!
I tried browsing to :
https:// domain name /mautic/docroot/index.php
and says “Forbidden”

THANKS

[mzagmajster]

You do not have npm installed on your system, thats why installation failed

[alexrm1x]

Hello all,

This is what I did to install npm… having in mind that I’m under a VPS environment, on Debian 12 and Virtualmin as the VPS management tool…

Opened a terminal session with the root # user (I think you can also do sudo)…

Went to official node, nvm and npm official web page

Node.js — Download Node.js®

selected on the menu the v20 on Linux using nvm…

these were the steps:

installs nvm (Node Version Manager)

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.0/install.sh | bash

download and install Node.js (you may need to restart the terminal)

nvm install 20

verifies the right Node.js version is in the environment

node -v # should print v20.17.0

verifies the right npm version is in the environment

npm -v # should print 10.8.2

IMPORTANT:
These 2 last commands
node -v
and
npm -v
do not work on regular users (mautic user used for the mautic install).

So then… because node, nvm and npm installs only to the root user and a protected only root location (/root/.nvm at least in Debian12) , I need to MOVE the installation to somewhere where any other VPS linux user (like the mautic linux user) can call and run the commands.

So still using root I created a directory where node, npm and npx will reside:
mkdir /usr/local/nvm

then moved the node, nvm and npm installation there:
mv /root/.nvm /usr/local/nvm

then make sure the ownership of root and any user can reach and run:
chown -R root:root /usr/local/nvm
chmod -R a+rx /usr/local/nvm

then I created 3 symbolic links to call the node stuff. This will help to have the commands under the user PATH (check with the “env” command with the mautic installation linux user):
ln -s /usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v20.17.0/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node
ln -s /usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v20.17.0/bin/npm /usr/local/bin/npm
ln -s /usr/local/nvm/versions/node/v20.17.0/bin/npx /usr/local/bin/npx

Commands should work now for all users, enabling launching the mautic install:
node -v
npm -v
npx -v

Commands to test from the normal mautic users:
ls -l /usr/local/bin/node
ls -l /usr/local/bin/npm
ls -l /usr/local/bin/npx

Hope this helps.

Thanks and hi to all the community!