Install vTiger CRM on CentOS Linux
Install vTiger CRM on CentOS Linux
At this point I have a VM with CentOS installed, joined to the domain, and fully updated, not much more to that.
Let’s get started, install these two, one at a time, not combined
yum install gd gd-devel php-gd
yum install php-imap
After that Download the Source TAR from the vTiger Website
*** DO NOT TRY THE .BIN installer, its crap and always fails!!! ***
Once Downloaded, install Basic LAMP stack with the following commands:
From here we have to do some setup
This sets MySQL and Apache to run on startup
Edit the hosts file so Apache is happy
Start Apache
Start MySQL
Perform the MySQL Secure Installation
Pretty much hit Yes to everything after reading carefully, and complete.
** Please note we are not using the .bin installer, we downloaded the source, the .bin pretty much NEVER WORKS ***
From here Move the downloaded vtiger.tar.gz file to /var/www/html
Change to that folder
Unzip the compressed folder
We should now have the vtigercrm folder shown in blue
Set permissions accordingly
The following elements should be changed to php.ini file (see below)
There are a few others not immediately referenced:
allow_call_time_pass_reference OFF
Once the new php.ini has been uploaded, we have to restart apache for the new changes to take effect
Now we need to create a new database with utf8 format (not the default)
Now create a user that has full access to the database
Browse to the following web URL:
http://servername/vtigercrm/install.php
you should see this
From here hit “install” and accept the agreement
Configure the Database Portion
If it works, the following settings should appear
Install all optional modules as necessary
After you hit next, that will pretty much sit there and process for a long time….
Yay, config completed! Hit finish
From here going forward we should be aware that our database settings are stored in the following area, if you want to move the database to a MySQL Server:
/var/www/html/vtigercrm/config.inc.php
To Enable FTP Backup:
yum –y install ftp.x86_64
That’s it!
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