Hi,

It's been about 16 years since I last dabbled with Linux so I pretty much back to newbie stage, and although I have successfully got a Ubuntu server up and running it was all pretty straight forward really as the wizards are pretty amazing now.

Anyway my question is where would the installation go for vTiger (CRM) I have checked through the installation documentation and it recommends the Apache root directory of which I think is /etc/apache2/

I tried then to run the installation file 'install.php' and it says file not found, so I can only assume that I have not loaded the files in to the web server's root, as my experience is with Windows based systems.

I then tried to put the installation folder in /var/www/ as the 'www' would normally what I would expect to be the web servers root?

My server IP and where I would expect to run the install file from is on:

https://192.168.123.123:10000/crm/install.php

So the extracted files for the vTiger installation are in the folder 'crm' so can someone please maybe explain where I need to put my installation folder 'crm' to get the installation file to run, or am I way off target with this logic??

When I installed Ununtu server I also installed LAMP and SSH so it is already loaded with the following;

Apache = 2.2.11
MySQL = 5.0.75
PHP5

TIA,

Ken

You should install from source and not from a package.

Here are the notes I did to install it on Debian. Should be the same for ubuntu server.

Hope this helps!


Intro

Attempt to install V-Tiger (an open source CRM) from source on the new Debian 5 (lenny).

Install Debian

Install debian in expert mode and keep a simple base system.

Basic system needs

# apt-get install -V ssh screen


Prepare the system

We need to prepare the system to host V-Tiger. For that we need to install a few packages necessary for the CRM.

Package installation

Install the following to meet V-Tiger dependencies

# apt-get install -V php5 apache2 mysql-server php5-gd libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql php5-imap



Configure PHP for Apache

You need to do the following recommended changes to make sure PHP works well with V-Tiger.
File: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

safe_mode = Off # default
display_errors = On # default
file_uploads = On # default
register_globals = Off # default
max_execution_time = 600 # was: 30
output_buffering = On # was: Off
memory_limit = 64M # default
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE # default
allow_call_time_pass_reference = On # default
log_errors = Off # default
short_open_tag = On # default

Reboot the box to make sure all is in place. It's not in production yet!

V-Tiger

This is the installation of V-Tiger 5.0.4 from source.

Prepare

base

extract the files to /var/www and set the permissions.
Code: extract V-Tiger and set permissions

# cd /var/www
# tar zxvf ~/vtigercrm-5.0.4.tar.gz
# find vtigercrm/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
# find vtigercrm/ -type f -exec chmod 640 {} \;
# chown -R www-data: vtigercrm/


Apache

Create a Virtual Host for apache
File: /etc/apache2/site-available/vtiger

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName vtiger.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/vtigercrm/
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/vtiger.mydomain.com.error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/vtiger.mydomain.com.access_log combined
<Directory /var/www/vtigercrm>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

now make sure you make a link to it in site-enabled.
Code: make a link

# cd /etc/apache2/site-enabled
# ln -s ../site-available/vtiger

restart Apache.

# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart


MySQL

We need to create a database for V-Tiger and grant it permisions to it's DB.
Code: create a db and grant rights to it

# mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE vtiger DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
mysql> GRANT ALL ON vtiger.* TO 'vtgrusr'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YourPassword';


Configure

Time to configure V-Tiger using the web interface. make sure you made changes to your DNS/host file to point the VirtualHost IP to the name.

In your browser, type: http://vtiger.mydomain.com/

... and finish the configuration. That's it!

I don't have a directory
/etc/apache2/site-available/
but I have
/etc/apache2/sites-available/ (note the s in sites)

Is this a type error?

Should I create the file vtiger myself? (I don't have that file in the mentioned directory)