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Welcome to Mixpost

Mixpost it's the coolest Self-hosted social media management software.

Easily create, schedule, publish, and manage social media content in one place, with no limits or monthly subscription fees. More details on mixpost.app.

Join our community:

• Discord
• Facebook Private Group

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.

Installing FFmpeg

Mixpost has the ability to generate images from video while uploading a video file. This would not be possible without FFmpeg installed on your server.

You need to follow FFmpeg installation instructions on their official website.

Installing Supervisor

You need to configure a process monitor. To install Supervisor on Ubuntu, you may use the following command:

sudo apt-get install supervisor

Configuring Supervisor

Supervisor configuration files are typically stored in the /etc/supervisor/conf.d.

Create the file mixpost-horizon.conf inside of conf.d folder and put this configuration content:

[program:mixpost_horizon]
process_name=%(program_name)s
command=php /path-to-your-project/artisan horizon
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=your_user_name
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/path-to-your-project/storage/logs/horizon.log
stopwaitsecs=3600

Cron

Add a cron that running the scheduler:

* * * * * cd /path-to-your-project && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

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

• Pull Docker image with all configurations.
• Build Docker image and have full control.

Pull Docker image with all configurations

This is the most suitable method. You can use Portainer to install Mixpost Lite.

See image on docker hub. There are also the installation instructions.

Build Docker Image

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

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

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

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

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

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