Installation of OroCRM with PHP7 using Composer tool

Updated 14 June 2017

OroCRM is an open source customer relationship management system used for managing a company’s interaction with current and future customers. It will capture everything you need to know about each customer in a complete 360° view. With OroCRM you’re able to get information from 5 years ago and create reports that will show you who your top customers were of your store at that time. Shopping cart abandonment is a huge concern, It has a feature that allows you to have access to the items and the customers who have discarded them. Also, giving you the tools that you need to correct the situation.

With the few easy steps you can install OroCRM on your system and enjoy the facilities provided by it.

*OS: UBUNTU 14.04 LTS*

INSTALL APACHE SERVER AND MYSQL-SERVER:

OroCRM requires PHP 5.5.9 and above.

INSTALL PHP 7:

Also ensure that following PHP extensions are installed.

And ensure the following PHP settings

  • date.timezone must be set.
  • memory_limit should be at least 512M.
  • xdebug.scream must be disabled in php.ini.
  • xdebug.show_exception_trace must be disabled in php.ini.
  • Node.js (for JS minification).
  • PHP-XML module installed.
  • Uncomment extension=pdo.so, extension=pdo_mysql.so, extension=pdo_mysqli.so {Only if installer shows PDO drivers unavailable}

CREATING A DATABASE:

DOWNLOAD COMPOSER:

Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH

CLONE THE GITHUB REPOSITORY:

Here we are using composer tool to install orocrm.

INSTALL BY COMPOSER:

Now if all the required php extensions are not installed, you will receive errors. Check for the missing php extensions and install them. If everything goes right, then at the end of the composer install command, you will be asked to enter some configuration parameters in the console. The parameters are required to bootstrap the application.

Enter your database credentials or you can change the parameters in the “app/config/parameters.yml” file.

CREATING THE VIRTUAL HOST:

GRANT OWNERSHIP AND PERMISSIONS:

Now enable this configuration.

To enable URL rewrite

For multiple PHP versions,

Ensuring OroCRM compatibility with php-7.0,

Add orocrm.example.com to your hosts,

RESTART APACHE AND MYSQL SERVER:

Hit the URL “http://orocrm.example.com/install.php”

  • Now click on Begin installation.
  • The installation wizard will check the system configuration.
  • Enter your database credentials and setup database connection.
  • Database gets initialized.
  • Enter the credentials in Administrative Setup and click on install button.
  • Now finish the process.
  • Click on Launch application button.

Now you are all set to explore the world of OroCRM. Enter your login credentials and facilitate yourself with the interactive services provided by it.

 

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