How to install OroCRM from SSH for Noobs

If you are reading this you are probably Googling on how to install OroCRM on your Server, but don’t know where to start. Luckily I wasted 4 days of my life finding out. Tl;dr: Don’t install this if you are looking for Magento2 integration – this is not available yet. If you just want to use this for case management its fine. However we were unable to configure the full cron job (automating of e-mail sync etc) while this is simply put impossible if you are a noob in coding. So good luck, and hopefully someone with more sense of coding can edit this logfile to something everybody can use:

OroCRM 2.5 install log v2.0

Server install for example on DigitalOcean Droplet (Ubuntu 16.04)

sudo apt-get -y install vim

sudo apt-get install unzip

Set up localisation file:

sudo vim /etc/default/locale

Add:
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Apache

sudo apt-get -y install apache2

sudo vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Add:
ServerName ipaddressofyourserver

sudo apache2ctl configtest
(should say Syntax OK)

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo service apache2 restart

Firewall

sudo ufw allow in “Apache Full”

(go to IP address in browser and it should say ‘It works’)

MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

mysql_secure_installation

PHP

sudo apt-get -y update

sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common python-software-properties

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

sudo apt-get -y install php libapache2-mod-php php-mcrypt php-mysql php-cli php-ctype php-curl php-fileinfo php-gd php-intl php-json php-mbstring php-simplexml php-tokenizer php-xml php-zip php-tidy php-soap

sudo apt-get -y install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev

sudo vim /etc/php/7.0/apache2/php.ini

date.timezone Europe/Amsterdam
detect_unicode = disabled
memory_limit = 512M

sudo php -v

Supervisor

sudo apt-get -y install supervisor

JSEngine:

sudo apt-get -y install nodejs

Composer

sudo curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php — –install-dir=/usr/local/bin –filename=composer

composer

OroCRM

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Add between <VirtualHost></VirtualHost>:
SetEnv COMPOSER_HOME “/usr/local/bin”

Add below <VirtualHost>:
<Directory “/var/www/html/orocrm/web”>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
change the one between VirtualHost to /orocrm/web as well

sudo vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

and replace this code :

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride none
Require all granted

with

<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted

sudo service apache2 restart

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE orocrm_db;
CREATE USER ‘orocrm’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘<password>’; (aanhalingstekens opnieuw typen)
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON orocrm_db.* TO ‘orocrm’;
quit

mysql -u orocrm -p

quit

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install via Composer:

cd /var/www/html/

git clone -b 2.4 https://github.com/orocrm/crm-application.git orocrm

cd orocrm

composer install —prefer-dist —no-dev

vim app/config/parameters.yml

(Parameter explanation: https://oroinc.com/orocrm/documentation/2.3/book/installation)

vim /etc/hosts

Add:

127.0.0.1 ipadres

cd /var/www/html/orocrm

php app/console oro:install —env=prod

php app/console oro:api:doc:cache:clear

Privileges

sudo useradd orocrm
sudo usermod -g www-data orocrm

cd /var/www/html/orocrm

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/orocrm

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/orocrm

sudo systemctl restart apache2

CRON

crontab -e -u www-data

Add:

* * * * * cd /var/www/html/orocrm; /usr/bin/php app/console oro:cron:imap-sync > /dev/null 2>&1

sudo systemctl restart apache2

######### IT WORKS – except for cron (while its impossible to figure out how this works from the basic OroCRM knowledge base articles) – After many trial and error the above CRON is the best we could figure out. The whole messagequeue system Oro uses is only for wizards and coding guru’s ###########

By the way; THERE IS NO INTEGRATION WITH MAGENTO2 AVAILABLE. So Skip this whole thing if you are looking for that (we found out after installing and taking 4 days of SSH failure :D :D :D)

We hope this helps you, because we had to figure this out by reading 100 pages. Too bad it doesnt work for us in the end while we need Magento2 support. #fml

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[mmiasnikovParticipant]

Hello, Jochen.

Thank you very much for sharing your experience.

As Artem Liubeznyi answered you in topic How to integrate OroCRM and Magento2 – at the moment, indeed, we don’t support Magento2 integration out-of-the-box.

Taking into account your experience we’ve planned to add more clear notes about the current situation with Magento 2 integration to OroCRM documentation.

Also, I want to attract your attention that besides the way, described in the OroCRM Installation Guide, there are additional ways to set up an Oro application, described it the thread List of alternative ways to install Oro applications with environment if you want to get a working Oro application quickly.

[Author]

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