Install SugarCRM on Ubuntu

Installed required packages

• LAMP (Apache, MySQL and PHP)
• libapache2-mod-php5
• libapache2-mod-perl2
• php5-cli
• php5-common
• php5-curl
• php5-dev
• php5-gd
• php5-imap
• php5-ldap
• unzip
• php5-mhash
• php5-mysql
• php5-odbc
• curl
• libwww-perl
• imagemagick

Install all the required packages using the following commands

sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
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 Database for SugarCRM

mysql -u root –p

Then type your MySQL password and run this command

mysql> create database sugarcrm;
mysql> exit

Installed SugarCRM

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

cd /var/www

Download SugarCRM
wget http://dl.sugarforge.org/sugarcrm/2SugarCE5.5.1GA/SugarCE5.5.1GA/SugarCE-5.5.1.zip

Now unzip file for using this command
unzip SugarCE-5.5.1.zip

Changed the folder name
sudo mv SugarCE-5.5.1.zip sugarcrm

Changed the ownership of this folder
sudo chown –Rf apacheuser:apachegroup and folder name like….
sudo chown –Rf www-data:www-data 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

Need for some changing to edit the php.ini file using the following command
Location of php.ini file

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

Change
;memory_limit = 16M
to
memory_limit = 50M

Change
;upload_max_filesize = 2M
to
upload_max_filesize = 10M

Restart web server using the following command
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Configure sugarCRM

Now open your webbrowser and enter the following address

http://domain-name or server-ip/sugarcrm/install.php

Please let me know in case any problem regarding this setup…..