Sugar CRM

Preparing your system

Install all the required packages using the following commands

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-perl2

sudo apt-get install php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-imap php5-ldap unzip

sudo apt-get install php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-odbc curl libwww-perl imagemagick

Creating SugarCRM Database

$ mysql -u root -p

mysql> create database sugarcrm;

mysql> exit

Installing SugarCRM

Now you need to go to your webserver document root directory (default location is /var/www)

cd /var/www

Download SugarCRM community edition from here or using the following command (at the time of writing this article sugarCRM Community edition 5.1.0b

wget http://www.sugarforge.org/frs/download.php/4742/SugarCE-5.1.0b.zip

Now you should be having SugarCE-5.1.0b.zip file and unzip using the following command

unzip SugarCE-5.1.0b.zip

Move all the contents from SugarCE-5.1.0b directory to sugarcrm

sudo mv SugarCE-5.1.0b sugarcrm

Give Apache Ownership Over SugarCRM Files (apache-user: www-data)

sudo chown www-data -vR /var/www/sugarcrm

Give Write Permitions for Apache on Some of SugarCRM Files

cd /var/www/sugarcrm

sudo chmod 766 config.php

sudo chmod 766 custom

sudo chmod -R 766 data

sudo chmod -R 766 cache

sudo chmod -R 766 modules

Configuring php.ini file

You need to edit the php.ini file using the following command

sudo gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Change

;memory_limit = 16M

to

memory_limit = 50M

Change

;upload_max_filesize = 2M

to

upload_max_filesize = 10M

Restart apache server using the following command

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Configure sugarCRM

Now open your webbrowser and enter the following address

http://serverip/sugarcrm/install.php

Follow the on-screen instructions and Enjoy your sugarcrm.