vtiger

leamas · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 10

I'm about to start an installation on the linux server, but I'm going to be doing it off my home computer remotely using this program called Putty.

what I don't understand is how do I get the files onto the server and install them? I cannot seem to find any installation guides for installing remotely.

I would understand it if I were sitting at the server and then install it, but because I'm at home using Windows XP, I just cannot seem to make the connection on how to do it.

Could someone please let me know some steps on getting it installed?

Thanks in advance.

leamas · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 10

Now, I just downloaded WinSCP, which is supposedly a better way of transferring files back and forth compared to Putty; mainly because it has a nice graphical interface.

Now, if I were to just use this software, transfer the .bin file over to the root on the Linux Server, should I then be able to run the .bin file and follow the installation instructions?

Toto · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 39

What I did is I downloaded them from the server, (as opposed to downloading at home and then uploading to the server). You can do this through:

Code: lynx http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/vtigercrm/vtigercrm-4.2.4.bin

or

Code:
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/vtigercrm/vtigercrm-4.2.4.bin

Note that "lynx http://etc.etc" needs to be all in one line. The size of my window shows it as two lines, so just FYI.

Hope this helps.
Toto

Toto · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 39

Second note: you'll still need to use Putty/SSH to connect to your server. Once in it, download the file and run the .bin file this way:
Code:
./vtigercrm-4.2.4.bin

Follow the instructions to install it all (that is, install Apache and MySQL too). If you have either of those installed and working, it may be better to download the source files, instead of the binary.

Toto

leamas · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 10

We just installed Virtuozzo onto the server. HOwever, I think that apache and mysql is already installed when you do this.

Do you know anything about Virtuozzo?
I'm just wondering if this is true, then do you do think that I should just stick to the source files?

Toto · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 39

Log in with root priviledges and you could run the following commands in an RPM-based server (like Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake/Mandriva, etc):

Code:
rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
rpm -qa | grep -i httpd
rpm -qa | grep -i apache

That should tell you if those packages were installed previously. On any server you can also do this:

Code:
whereis mysql
whereis httpd
whereis httpd2

If those commands report something like:
mysql: /usr/bin/mysql /usr/lib/mysql /usr/share/mysql
then you know they are already installed.

If you want to know what version is installed, you can run the following:

Code:
mysql -v
httpd -v

These will report the version installed. Of course, all you need is these last two to know if those two packages are installed. However, I thought it'd be useful to show you ways in which you can search for any package in your server, since you seem to need a little hand. :)

To answer your other question, I know NOTHING of Virtuozzo. However, if you already have apache and mysql installed, I would definitely recommend downloading the source for vtiger. You will basically just uncompress the files into your web directory (/var/www/html for me), created your mysql database manually, then run from a browser http://www.yourdomain.com/vtiger_folder/install.php and follow the instructions. It's VERY simple.

Toto

leamas · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 10

Thanks, that help a lot. :)
I still had to get some tweeking, but over all, it is running nice.