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How to Install SugarCRM on CentOS

7 in Simple Steps
Our tutorial for today is How to Install SugarCRM on
Centos 7 in Simple Steps. SugarCRM Community
Edition is a free and open source web-based
customer relationship management software written
in PHP. Customer Relations Management is a main
component to any business with customer support,
marketing and sales. SugarCRM is used to track
customer orders and billing history and also used to
catalog any complaints. SugarCRM allows you to
customize and conJgure Sugar to meet your speciJc
business needs. SugarCRM comes with three
editions Community Edition, Professional Edition
and Enterprise Edition. SugarCRM community
edition is freely available to download and use. The
key features of SugarCRM are Marketing
Automation, Sales Force Automation, Email

How to Install SugarCRM on CentOS

Integration, Customer Support, Social CRM, mobile
CRM, reporting, project & activity management, and
more. 7 in Simple Steps
In this tutorial, we will learn how to install SugarCRM
CE on CentOS 7 server.

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Requirements
A server running CentOS 7.
A static IP address setup on your server.

Getting Started
First, you will need to update your OS with the latest
release and update its installed packages and
repositories using below command:

yum update -y

Once your system is up-to-date, you can proceed to

the next step.

Install LAMP
In order to run SugarCRM, you will need to install
LAMP server and other required PHP modules on
your system.

You can install all of them by running the following

command:

yum install php httpd mariadb mariadb-

server php-mysqlnd php-opcache php-
mbstring php-gd -y

Once all the packages are installed including their

dependencies, start the Apache and MariaDB
services then enable it to start on boot with the
following command:

systemctl start httpd

systemctl start mariadb

systemctl enable httpd

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systemctl enable mariadb

Configure MariaDB Database.

By default MariaDB installation is not secured, so
you will need to secure it Jrst.

To do so, run the following script:

mysql_secure_installation

Answer all the questions as shown below:

Enter current password for root (enter for none):

Enter

Set root password? [Y/n]: n

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]: Y

Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]: Y

Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]: Y

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]: Y

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Next, log in to MySQL shell with the following

command:

mysql -u root -p

Enter the root password when asked, then create a

database and user for SugarCRM:

MariaDB [(none)]>CREATE DATABASE

sugarcrm;

MariaDB [(none)]>GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES

ON sugarcrm.* TO ‘crm’@’localhost’
IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’ WITH GRANT
OPTION;

MariaDB [(none)]>flush privileges;

MariaDB [(none)]>exit;

Next, you will need to edit “/etc/php.ini” to tune

the PHP settings:

nano /etc/php.ini

Change the following line:

upload_max_filesize = 25M

Save and close the Jle, then restart apache service

to implement the saved changes.

systemctl restart httpd

Install SugarCRM
First, you will need to download the latest
community edition of SugarCRM from their o_cial
website. Once download is complete, extract the
downloaded archive with the following command:

unzip SugarCE-6.5.24.zip

Next, move the extracted archive in Apache web root

directory:

mv SugarCE-6.5.24
/var/www/html/SugarCRM

Give necessary permission to SugarCRM directory:

chown -R apache:apache
/var/www/html/sugarcrm

Next, you will need to allow HTTP on port `80`

through Jrewalld. You can do this by running the
following command:

firewall-cmd –zone=public –add-

service=http –permanent

firewall-cmd –reload

Access SugarCRM Web Installation

Wizard
Once everything is setup properly, it’s time to access
SugarCRM web installation wizard.

Open your favourite web browser and type the URL

http://your-server-ip/SugarCRM, you should
see the SugarCRM Community Setup Wizard as
below:

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Next, click on the `Next` button. You should see the

following page:

Read and Accept the License agreement then Click

on the “Next” button, you should see the following
page:

Here, choose the First option and click on the “Next”

button, you should see the following page:

Here, specify the database type and click on the

“Next” button, you should see the following database
conJguration page:

Provide the database name, host name, Database

admin username and password, then click on the
“Next” button, you should see the following page:

Next, provide SugarCRM admin username and

password as you wish, then click on the `Next`
button, Here, conJrm all the setting and click on the
“Next” button, you should see the following page:

Now, click on the “Next” button to Jnish setup, you

should see the following page:

Now, enter your admin user credentials to log in your

SugarCRM community edition and start using your
best customer relations management portal as
shown below:

Summary
Congratulations! you have successfully installed
SugarCRM on CentOS 7 server. You can now easily
host SugarCRM in the production environment and
customize it as per your requirements. Feel free to
comment me if you have any questions.

[box type=”bio”] Written By Hitesh Jethva. Over 5

years of experience as a Linux administrator. My
skills include a depth knowledge of Rehat/Centos,
Ubuntu nginx and Apache, Mysql, Subversion, Linux,
Ubuntu, web hosting, web server, squied proxy, NFS,
FTP, DNS, Samba, ldap, Openvpn, Haproxy, Amazon
web services, WHMCS, Openstack Cloud, PostJx
Mail Server, Security etc.[/box]

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