EspoCRM is an open-source customer relationship management (CRM) solution that helps businesses and organizations manage their sales pipeline, customer interactions, and customer information. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install EspoCRM on an OpenBSD server.
Before we start, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
First, download the latest version of EspoCRM from the official website. You can use wget to download the package from the command line:
$ wget https://www.espocrm.com/downloads/EspoCRM-5.9.6.zip
EspoCRM requires several PHP extensions that may not be installed by default on your OpenBSD server. To install the required extensions, use the pkg_add command as follows:
$ sudo pkg_add php-gd php-mbstring php-pdo_mysql php-zip
Before we can install EspoCRM, we need to create a new database and user for it. You can use the following commands to create a new database and user in MySQL:
CREATE DATABASE espocrm;
CREATE USER 'espocrmuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON espocrm.* TO 'espocrmuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Make sure to replace espocrmuser and password with your own values.
After downloading the EspoCRM package, extract it to your web server's document root directory. If you are using Apache, the document root directory is usually /var/www/htdocs. For Nginx, it is usually /var/www/html.
$ sudo unzip EspoCRM-5.9.6.zip -d /var/www/htdocs/
EspoCRM comes with a default configuration file that needs to be customized for your server environment. Copy the data/config.php.template file to data/config.php and edit it using your favorite text editor:
$ cd /var/www/htdocs/EspoCRM
$ cp data/config.php.template data/config.php
$ sudo vi data/config.php
In this file, you need to update the database configuration parameters to match the values you set up in Step 3.
<?php
return array (
'database' =>
array (
'driver' => 'pdo_mysql',
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => 3306,
'dbname' => 'espocrm',
'user' => 'espocrmuser',
'password' => 'password',
'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
),
// ...
);
You may also need to change other parameters such as the base URL, default language, and email configuration.
To run EspoCRM, the web server needs to have write permissions to certain directories. Use the chown and chmod commands to set the correct permissions:
$ sudo chown -R www:www /var/www/htdocs/EspoCRM
$ sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/htdocs/EspoCRM
Now, you should be able to access EspoCRM by navigating to the URL http://yourserverIP/EspoCRM/ in your web browser. You will be prompted to create a new administrator account and login to the application.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed EspoCRM on OpenBSD. Use this application to manage your customer interactions, sales pipeline, and customer information.
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