How to Install SuiteCRM on EndeavourOS Latest

SuiteCRM is a popular open-source customer relationship management (CRM) software that allows you to manage your business processes and customer data in an efficient way. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing SuiteCRM on EndeavourOS Latest.

Prerequisites

• A running instance of EndeavourOS Latest.
• A web server (Apache or Nginx) installed and configured.
• PHP 7.3 or higher with necessary extensions installed.
• MySQL or MariaDB installed and running.

Step 1: Download SuiteCRM

1. Open your web browser and go to the SuiteCRM website: https://suitecrm.com/.
2. Click on the "Download" button on the homepage to get the latest version of SuiteCRM.

Step 2: Install Dependencies

1. Open the terminal on your EndeavourOS Latest instance.
2. Install necessary dependencies with the following command:

sudo pacman -S apache php php-apache mariadb

3. Start and enable Apache and MariaDB services with the following commands:

sudo systemctl start httpd

sudo systemctl enable httpd

sudo systemctl start mariadb

sudo systemctl enable mariadb

Step 3: Create a Database for SuiteCRM

1. Login to the MariaDB shell with the following command:

sudo mysql -u root -p

2. Create a new database named 'suitecrm' with the following command:

CREATE DATABASE suitecrm CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;

3. Create a new user named 'suitecrmuser' with a password with the following command:

CREATE USER 'suitecrmuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';

4. Grant all privileges on the 'suitecrm' database to the 'suitecrmuser' with the following command:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON suitecrm.* TO 'suitecrmuser'@'localhost';

5. Flush privileges with the following command:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

6. Exit the MariaDB shell with the following command:

exit;

Step 4: Configure Apache

1. Open the configuration file for Apache with the following command:

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

2. Search for the following line:

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

3. Uncomment the above line by removing the '#' at the beginning of the line.

4. Save the file and exit.

Step 5: Install SuiteCRM

1. Extract the downloaded SuiteCRM archive to the Apache document root directory with the following command:

sudo tar xvfz ~/Downloads/SuiteCRM-7.11.18.zip -C /srv/httpd/htdocs/

Note: Replace 'SuiteCRM-7.11.18.zip' with the name of the SuiteCRM archive you have downloaded.

2. Change the ownership of the SuiteCRM directory with the following command:

sudo chown -R http:http /srv/httpd/htdocs/SuiteCRM/

Note: 'http' is the user that Apache runs as.

Step 6: Configure SuiteCRM

1. Open your web browser and navigate to your server's IP address or host name followed by "/SuiteCRM" - for example, http://yourserverIPaddress/SuiteCRM.
2. Follow the installation wizard and configure the database settings with the following details:

Database Name: suitecrm Database Host: localhost Database User: suitecrmuser Database Password: (the password you set for the suitecrmuser)

3. Follow the remaining steps in the wizard to complete the installation.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured SuiteCRM on EndeavourOS Latest. You can now use SuiteCRM to manage your customer data and business processes.

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