Installation

Vtiger CRM is web-application built using PHP.

Pre-requisites

• Apache 2.1+
• MySQL 5.1+ (default storage engine = InnoDB)
• PHP 5.2+, 5.3
  • php-imap
  • php-curl
  • php-xml
  • max_memory (min. 256MB)
  • max_execution_time (min. 60 seconds)
  • error_reporting (E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE &~E_DEPRECATED)
• Hardware: 4 GB RAM, 250 GB Disk (for file attachments)

Procedure

• Get your LAMP, WAMP, MAMP configured that meets the above pre-requisites.
• Unzip Vtiger CRM into web-folder (or document root)
• Make sure to provide writeable access to (Apache process owner) on web-folder.
• Visit http://yourserver.tld/index.php
• The wizard will help you get through next steps of installation.

Migration

Attention

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO TAKE BACKUP OF EXISTING SETUP - BOTH DATABASE AND SOURCE.

Steps

• Unzip vtigercrm-6ab-6xy-patch.zip into Vtiger CRM Folder.
  • vtiger6.zip and migrate folder will be unpacked.
• Through browser open /migrate path.
  • http://yourserver.tld/vtigercrm/migrate

Follow the instructions provided on the wizard.

Note

On *nix? Enable write-permission for the apache process owner for smooth migration.

Tips

• Always download the latest migration patch pointed from our website.
• Migration script execution is hungry on time and memory. Ensure your PHP configuration does not limit it.
• Make sure you have configured error_reporting well. Wrong configuration can clog the log files.
• Review - existing table Engine type to be in InnoDB - (expect sequential tables ending with _seq).

Backup

Routine backup (archives) of the database and application setup is essential to ensure failover is smooth.

Tip

mysqldump - administration tool is recommended to take dump of database.

zip - vtigercrm folder (specifically storage, user_privileges)