When I started to try out the Mautic community version on my local instance, it was a bit of a hassle and not very straightforward, for I was new to Mautic, and I am not very familiar with Docker as well.
Some of the issues I stumbled into include -
- PHP docker image is very bare bone. Doesn’t come loaded with even the most common of drivers like MySQL. Causing the installation page to not show “MYSQL” as an option. (Mautic issue link)
- A regression in Mautic currently doesn’t show the right message on screen for any database connectivity problems during installation. (Mautic issue link). This only made the earlier #1 issue not very obvious
- Connecting from the PHP container to MySQL was not getting through either via 127.0.0.1 or via localhost ([Mautic issue link](https: