find . -type d -not -perm 2755 -exec chmod 2755 {} \;
find . -type f -not -perm 0644 -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
find . ! -user www-data -exec chown www-data:www-data {} \;
chmod +x bin/consoleThe following documentation is for SuiteCRM Version 8+; to see documentation for Version 7, click here.
This guide is meant for developers that want to build SuiteCRM from the source code, without using the provided pre-built package.
In order to do customizations it is not required to build from the source code. We recommend that you try provided packages first, please check:
the Release page for more info on where to download the packages
the Downloading & Installing for more info on how to install using a package
If you don’t want to use the provided packages please continue through the following steps
The first step to take is to setup the webserver.
Please go through the Webserver Setup Guide.
Assuming you want to install a development environment from the source files, the next step is to actually retrieve the source code for the version you want to use
You can download a zip or directly checkout using git from the SuiteCRM-Core repo on github
After checking out the files copy them to your web server web root.
For apache webserver the web root is usually under /var/www or /var/www/html
Please consider the DocumentRoot you have set on your vhost (if using apache). See Web Server Setup guide - 4. Configuring URL re-writes
Adding the files to the web root is the most typical install method, but you can have different setups, like subdomains and others.
Set the required permissions
If you are using the terminal you can do this by running:
find . -type d -not -perm 2755 -exec chmod 2755 {} \;
find . -type f -not -perm 0644 -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
find . ! -user www-data -exec chown www-data:www-data {} \;
chmod +x bin/consolePlease have in mind that:
The user and group name (in the above example www-data) needs to be replaced by the actual system user and group that your webserver runs under. This varies depending on your
operating system. Common web server users are as follows:
www-data (Ubuntu Linux/Apache)
apache (Linux/Apache)
If the group name differs from the username apache is running with, you may need 0664 instead of 0644, and 2775 instead of 2755
Depending on your setup, you maybe required to create the database before you go through the install process.
The install process will then create the needed tables.
Before you continue with this guide you need to first setup the frontend part of the app.
Please go through the Front-end Developer install guide
You only need to do this step once. After the dependencies are installed you should only need to run it again after upgrading to a new SuiteCRM version
Install Composer
Run composer install in the root directory of your SuiteCRM instance
Run legacy theme compile in the root directory
NOTE: the ./vendor/bin/pscss is added as a composer dev dependency, so you need to run composer install without --no-dev
./vendor/bin/pscss -s compressed ./public/legacy/themes/suite8/css/Dawn/style.scss > ./public/legacy/themes/suite8/css/Dawn/style.cssFrom SuiteCRM version 8 and above you have two ways to run installer.
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