We will show you how to install Vtiger CRM on CentOS 7 . Vtiger CRM is an open-source Customer Relationship Management application written in PHP. It offers features such as sales automation, marketing automation, analysis and reporting, customer support and many others. It is very easy to install this Vtiger CRM on CentOS 7, so if you like to have your own CRM application on your server you can proceed with the following steps.
Table of Contents
1. Install LAMP Stack and PHP
You need to have LAMP stack installed on your server. It is pretty easy to install LAMP stack on your Linux VPS if you do not have it already installed. Also, make sure that your server runs PHP version 5.5 or above since the latest version of Vtiger CRM (at the moment of writing is 6.2.0) requires PHP 5.5 or above.
2. Check the PHP version
To check the PHP version on your server, you can log in to your server via SSH and run the following command:
php -v
3. Upgrade your system software
Next, you need to upgrade your system software to the latest version available. You can do this by executing the following command:
yum update
The update should take no more than few minutes to complete, so once your system software is up to date you can proceed with the other steps of this tutorial.
4. Download the latest version of Vtiger CRM
Navigate to the /opt directory on your server and download the latest version of Vtiger CRM:
cd /opt wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/vtigercrm/vtiger%20CRM%206.2.0/Core%20Product/vtigercrm6.2.0.tar.gz
5. Unpack Vtiger CRM
Once you download the archive, you can proceed and unpack the files:
tar -xzvf vtigercrm6.2.0.tar.gz
6. Change ownership of the files
Change the ownership of the files and move them to your /var/www/html directory:
chown apache: -R vtigercrm mv vtigercrm /var/www/html/
7. Create a New MySQL Database
Vtiger CRM requires MySQL database to store its data and now it is the right time for you to create the database for your application. To do that you need to log in to your MySQL server:
mysql -u root -p
8. Configure MySQL Database
And execute the following commands one by one:
CREATE DATABASE vtiger; CREATE USER 'vtiger_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PaSsWoRd'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `vtiger`.* TO 'vtiger_user'@'localhost'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
For security reasons you should use stronger password for your database user.
Now, access your Vtiger CRM application using your favorite web browser.
http://IP-ADDRESS/vtigercrm/
Replace IP-ADDRESS with the IP address of your CentOS VPS.
9. Continue With the Online Installation
You will have to enter the database information, create an Administrator user and set a password as well as some other similar things. Moreover, you may have to change some settings in your php.ini file. The installation setup will provide you with more information about the settings you need to change. Once you make the changes in your php.ini file, it is necessary to restart your Apache web server.
10. Restart Apache Server
systemctl restart httpd
Of course you don’t have to Install Vtiger CRM on CentOS 7, if you use one of our optimized Vtiger CRM Hosting Plan, in which case you can simply ask our expert Linux admins to install Vtiger CRM on CentOS7, for you. They are available 24×7 and will take care of your request immediately.
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Hi there, Thank you for your post. It’s usefull.
I’m trying to intall vtiger on Cent6.5 but got troble in step 3:
vtigerdb -> This Database is not found.Try changing the Database settings
Although I created database with name vtigerdb.
Could you please support me in agent case.
Thank you so much,
Double check if you are using the correct database name/username/password.
Thanks for sharing and it was very informative..I need more tips from your side..I am working in Erp Development Company In India
Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /vtigercrm/ on this server.
how can i fixed this
Did you check your web server log files? You should start debugging from there.
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 5 20:26 anaconda
drwxr-x—. 2 root root 22 Sep 5 20:26 audit
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 13306 Sep 5 23:01 boot.log
-rw——-. 1 root utmp 0 Sep 5 20:16 btmp
drwxr-xr-x. 2 chrony chrony 6 Nov 24 2015 chrony
-rw——-. 1 root root 4321 Sep 6 00:51 cron
drwxr-xr-x. 2 lp sys 54 Sep 5 13:26 cups
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 122335 Sep 6 2016 dmesg
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 122187 Sep 5 20:26 dmesg.old
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 3825 Sep 5 23:49 firewalld
drwx–x–x. 2 root gdm 4096 Sep 5 23:01 gdm
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Mar 10 19:28 glusterfs
drwx——. 2 root root 102 Sep 5 23:36 httpd
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 292584 Sep 5 23:39 lastlog
drwx——. 3 root root 17 Sep 5 20:16 libvirt
-rw——-. 1 root root 396 Sep 5 23:01 maillog
drwxr-x—. 2 mysql mysql 24 Sep 5 23:39 mariadb
-rw——-. 1 root root 475641 Sep 6 00:52 messages
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 17 Sep 5 20:16 pluto
drwx——. 2 root root 6 Jun 10 2014 ppp
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Nov 20 2015 qemu-ga
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 40 Sep 5 23:53 sa
drwx——. 3 root root 16 Sep 5 20:15 samba
-rw——-. 1 root root 10352 Sep 6 00:48 secure
drwx——. 2 root root 6 Jun 10 2014 speech-dispatcher
-rw——-. 1 root root 0 Sep 5 20:16 spooler
-rw——-. 1 root root 0 Sep 5 20:14 tallylog
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 22 Sep 5 13:26 tuned
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 80 Sep 5 23:01 wpa_supplicant.log
-rw-rw-r–. 1 root utmp 9216 Sep 6 00:50 wtmp
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 83889 Sep 6 00:53 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 21451 Sep 5 14:06 Xorg.0.log.old
-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 2300 Sep 5 14:06 Xorg.1.log
-rw——-. 1 root root 1464 Sep 5 23:46 yum.log
what should i change here, can u help me
Try editing the following file
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.confand change fromDirectory “/var/www/html” >
…
AllowOverride None
…
To
Directory “/var/www/html” >
…
AllowOverride All
…
I cant get it to work.
I get alot of Stricts Standards errors(this is some of them), and i have checked permissions, and owner of files.
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::internalDebugging() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerLog.php on line 49Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::debug() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerPropertyConfigurator.php on line 352
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::log() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerLog.php on line 71
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::internalDebugging() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerLog.php on line 49
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerManager::getLogger() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/include/database/PearDatabase.php on line 20
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerManager::getLoggerRepository() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerManager.php on line 91
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerHierarchy::singleton() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerManager.php on line 103
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::debug() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerHierarchy.php on line 220
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::log() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerLog.php on line 71
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::internalDebugging() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerLog.php on line 49
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::internalDebugging() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerLog.php on line 49
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::debug() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerHierarchy.php on line 229
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::log() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerLog.php on line 71
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLog::internalDebugging() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerLog.php on line 49
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerManager::getLogger() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/include/database/PearDatabase.php on line 118
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerManager::getLoggerRepository() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerManager.php on line 91
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerHierarchy::singleton() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerManager.php on line 103
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerLevel::getLevelInfo() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerCategory.php on line 384
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerManager::getLogger() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/include/database/PearDatabase.php on line 118
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerManager::getLoggerRepository() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerManager.php on line 91
Strict Standards: Non-static method LoggerHierarchy::singleton() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerManager.php on line 103
Strict Standards: Declaration of Users::insertIntoEntityTable() should be compatible with CRMEntity::insertIntoEntityTable($table_name, $module, $fileid = '') in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/Users/Users.php on line 1645
Strict Standards: Declaration of Users::save() should be compatible with CRMEntity::save($module_name, $fileid = '') in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/Users/Users.php on line 1645
Strict Standards: Declaration of Users::get_column_value() should be compatible with CRMEntity::get_column_value($columnname, $fldvalue, $fieldname, $uitype, $datatype = '') in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/Users/Users.php on line 1645
Strict Standards: Declaration of Activity::get_full_list() should be compatible with CRMEntity::get_full_list($order_by = '', $where = '') in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/Calendar/Activity.php on line 1124
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 17
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 18
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 19
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 20
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 21
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 22
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 23
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 24
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 25
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 26
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 27
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 28
Notice: Undefined variable: mod_strings in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/CustomView/CustomView.php on line 29
Strict Standards: Declaration of Vtiger_LanguageExport::__initExport() should be compatible with Vtiger_PackageExport::__initExport($module, $moduleInstance) in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/vtlib/Vtiger/LanguageExport.php on line 16
Strict Standards: Declaration of Vtiger_LanguageExport::export_Dependencies() should be compatible with Vtiger_PackageExport::export_Dependencies($moduleInstance) in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/vtlib/Vtiger/LanguageExport.php on line 16
Strict Standards: Declaration of Vtiger_LanguageImport::initImport() should be compatible with Vtiger_PackageImport::initImport($zipfile, $overwrite = true) in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/vtlib/Vtiger/LanguageImport.php on line 16
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::_init() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/HTTP_Session/Session.php on line 803
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::localName() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/HTTP_Session/Session.php on line 728
Strict Standards: Declaration of Vtiger_View_Controller::preProcessTplName() should be compatible with Vtiger_Action_Controller::preProcessTplName() in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/runtime/Controller.php on line 288
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::start() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/http/Session.php on line 38
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::name() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/HTTP_Session/Session.php on line 155
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::detectID() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/HTTP_Session/Session.php on line 158
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::useCookies() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/HTTP_Session/Session.php on line 291
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::name() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/HTTP_Session/Session.php on line 292
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::name() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/HTTP_Session/Session.php on line 293
Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/helpers/LoggerOptionConverter.php:174) in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/HTTP_Session/Session.php on line 161
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::id() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/http/Session.php on line 39
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::isIdle() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/http/Session.php on line 44
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::isExpired() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/http/Session.php on line 44
Notice: Undefined index: authenticated_user_id in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/main/WebUI.php on line 38
Strict Standards: Non-static method HTTP_Session::get() should not be called statically in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/http/Session.php on line 61
Notice: Undefined index: language in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/runtime/BaseModel.php on line 31
Notice: Undefined index: current_language in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/runtime/Globals.php on line 21
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/helpers/LoggerOptionConverter.php:174) in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/main/WebUI.php on line 124
A small edit, i set error reporting different, now it is showing
Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerAppender.php on line 73
Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerPropertyConfigurator.php on line 565
Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/log4php.debug/LoggerAppender.php on line 73
if i remove show error, then i just get a error 500.
Hey, what do the logs say?
Which logs?
And where to find them :) ?
these are the errors now.
Warning: Directory /var/www/html/vtigercrm/include/utils/../../test/vtlib/HTML not writable, please alter file permissions in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer.php on line 165Warning: Directory /var/www/html/vtigercrm/include/utils/../../test/vtlib/HTML not writable, please alter file permissions in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer.php on line 165
Warning: Directory /var/www/html/vtigercrm/include/utils/../../test/vtlib/HTML not writable, please alter file permissions in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer.php on line 165
Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/runtime/Viewer.php on line 58
Warning: mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/runtime/Viewer.php on line 58
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'SmartyException' with message 'unable to write file /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/runtime/../../test/templates_c/vlayout/wrt5840678c300c2' in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/Smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_write_file.php:44 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/Smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_template.php(201): Smarty_Internal_Write_File::writeFile('/var/www/html/v...', 'compileTemplateSource() #2 /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/Smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatebase.php(374): Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase->fetch('modules/Vtiger/...', NULL, NULL, NULL, true) #3 /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/runtime/Viewer.php(177): Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase->display('modules/Vtiger/...') #4 /var/www/html/vtigercrm/includes/main/WebUI.php(202): Vtiger_Viewer->view('OperationNotPer...', 'Vtig in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/libraries/Smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_write_file.php on line 44
i finnaly got it to work.
i used following command:
[kim@localhost vtigercrm]$ getenforce
Enforcing
[kim@localhost vtigercrm]$ sudo setenforce 0
[kim@localhost vtigercrm]$
then i checked the site, and the setup wizard shows! :D
Ahhh, good old Selinux. :)
We are glad you’ve solved the problem.
Hi again
I know this is proberly not an issue you want to help me with.
But i have to try, when i am trying to edit Company details, nothing shows up, and alot of the website link’s doesen’t work , until i click on home, then they work, until i go to the same page again.
see attached image. :)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ocn6baryigjjjgf/2016-12-03%2014_13_44-Company%20Details%20%E2%80%93%20Google%20Chrome.png?dl=0
/Kim
Hi Kim.
Unfortunately, we can’t tell you what is causing the issue without checking your server.
If you are one of our customers please submit a support ticket or initiate a chat session and we will check this.