Learn the process of installing OroCRM on Ubuntu 20.04, configuring Nginx, and running scheduled tasks automatically in this step-by-step guide.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. OroCRM is a customer relationship management software. It is a simple and low-cost CRM system ideal for small and medium-sized enterprises. OroCRM is an integrated CRM, marketing automation, and live chat platform that helps marketers build genuine relationships with their prospects and customers. It has all the features to create, manage, measure, and optimize customer journeys. OroCRM streamlines the management of large amounts of data to provide accurate insights for better decision-making. The software offers a great set of features, which can be customized to suit the needs of any size company. It also comes at an affordable price, perfect for startup companies. OroCRM is designed with simplicity in mind, making it super easy to use for beginners and experts alike. In this tutorial, we will use orocrm.example.com for the installation domain, so you should change it with your desired domain for your installed OroCRM. Before starting OroCRM installation on your Ubuntu 20.04 system, update your system and ensure your system packages are up-to-date. To update and upgrade the system package, use the following commands: OroCRM can run with any web server which is supporting PHP. The new version of OroCRM supports all PHP versions greater than 7.0. This tutorial will show you to install OroCRM using Nginx web server with PHP 7.4 and php-fpm. After updating the system package, use the following command to install Nginx web server in your Ubuntu 20.04 system: After successful installation of Nginx, you can use the following command to start the webserver and enable it for an auto-start on system boot: To install PHP’s latest compatible version in your system, first, add PHP’s Ondrej repository. You can use the following command to add and enable PHP repository in your Ubuntu system: After adding the repository you can execute the following command to install php7.4 and all php extension dependencies: Now, edit the installed PHP configuration file: Find the below lines in the configuration file, uncomment and make changes parameters as shown; you can use your timezone: date.timezone = Asia/Kolkata ;Replace „Asia/Kolkata“ with your appropriate timezone cgi.fix_pathinfo=0 Now, after installation and configuration of php7.4 in our system, start the php7.4-fpm and enable it to run automatically on system boot using the following commands: Now that the webserver and PP have been installed in your system, let us install and configure Database for OroCRM using MariaDB. MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL and is available in most Linux distributions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Oracle Linux, OpenSUSE, and Ubuntu. MariaDB provides more features than MySQL, such as JSON support and improved performance. In Ubuntu 20.04 MariaDB’s version 10.3 is included, so you can install it by using the following command: After successfully installing MariaDB, the service will start automatically. You can verify that the MariaDB server is running using the following command: Output: After installation of MariaDB server in the system, enable it to run automatically on system boot using the following commands: Now, MariaDB is installed in your system to create a database and user for OroCRM. First, login to the MariaDB shell as root user by running: $ mysql -u root -p It will ask the root user’s password to get into the MariaDB shell.
