Install SugarCRM 6.5.16 Community Edition on Linux

SugarCRM is a web based customer relationship management software. Its available in multiple versions. SugarCRM community edition is freely available to download and use. But if you want to use most feature of SugarCRM, You need to upgarde following versions.

1. Professional
2. Corporate
3. Enterprise
4. Ultimate

Click Here to read more about SugarCRM packages and features include in above versions.

SugarCRM Community Edition is free to use. This article will step by step guide you to how to install SugarCRM CE on CentOS, RHEL and Fedora Systems.

Step 1: Setup LAMP

In order to run SugarCRM application, we need to setup LAMP environment. We assume that you already have PHP, MySQL and Apache installed on you system. If you don’t have use following article.

Install Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) Stack on CentOS, RHEL

Step 2: Install Required Modules and Configuration

We also need to install some specific modules for working properly of SugarCRM. Use following command to install them

# yum install php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc php-mbstring php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-soap
# yum install curl curl-devel perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick libxml2 libxml2-devel

Edit PHP configuration file /etc/php.ini and update following variables.

• 32-bit Systems: Minimum Memory 256M
• 64-bit Systems: Minimum Memory 512M

memory_limit = 512M
upload_max_filesize = 10M

After making above changes restart Apache service to apply changes.

# service httpd restart

Step 3: Download and Extract SugarCRM

Download and extract latest sugarcrm available version from SugarCRM official site.

# cd /var/www/
# wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/sugarcrm/files/latest/download?source=files

Extract downloaded archive. The zip archive version may changes

# unzip SugarCE-6.5.16.zip
# mv SugarCE-Full-6.5.16 sugarcrm
# chown -R apache:apache sugarcrm
# chmod -R 755 sugarcrm
# chmod -R 766 cache custom modules upload
# chmod 777 install.php config.php config_override.php

Step 4: Setup Apache VirtualHost

Edit apache configuration file and create a new virtual host like below.

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName crm.tecadmin.net
   ServerAdmin  admin@crm.tecadmin.net
   DocumentRoot /var/www/sugarcrm
   <Directory /var/www/sugarcrm>
      Allowoverride all
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Restart Apache Server using following command.

# service httpd restart

Step 5: Start SugarCRM Web Installer

After configuring apache, connect to your server using configured ServerName and following the web installer wizzard to complete setup.

5.1 Select preferd language and Click Next

5.2 In the step 2 just click on Next

5.3 Accept License Aggrement and Click Next

5.4 Select Installation Options ( We prefered to select Typical install ) and click Next

5.5 Select Database Type, You may use SQL Server or MySQL as database (I am using MySQL) and Click Next.

In my case SQL Server is not appearing because I haven’t installed SQL Server libraries in PHP.

5.6 Fill the Required Database Details like below snapshot and click Next.

5.7 Fill admin account details to use for login in admin panel after installation and click Next.

5.8 This screen will show you the selection done by you. Also it shows to schedule cron to automate the tasks while using SugarCRM. Now click Install.

5.9 Now you have installed SugarCRM, Just click Next and you will be redirected to Admin Login screen.

Add below content in .htaccess file to secure your sugarcrm application.

# BEGIN SUGARCRM RESTRICTIONS
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)^.*.log$
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+not_imported_.*.txt
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+(soap|cache|xtemplate|data|examples|include|log4php|metadata|modules)/+.*.(php|tpl)
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+emailmandelivery.php
RedirectMatch 403 (?i)/+cache/+upload
# END SUGARCRM RESTRICTIONS

Congratulation’s! you have successfully installed SugarCRM on your system.