MFPL/PTP CRM Review project Report

Installation

Ease of installation is not a criteria we are evaluating. However, in the interests of documentation, I'm going to record my experiences here.

Sugar CRM

I'm downloading the ​Community Edition (without the stack, since I already have PHP, MySQL, and Apache installed). I'm downloading version 5.0.0.f.

For starters, based on the ​documentation, I had to increase the amount of memory allocated to php to 40 M (on Debian systems the default is 16M). MFPL allows members to set their own memory limit. I'm not sure if other providers allow that or what limitations we should expect out in the wild.

I then unzipped the download into my web directory and pointed my browser to the web site. I got a nicely formatted install screen. After passing the requirements test, I chose typical install over custom install.

I filled in my database info and chose not to pre-populate the database with demo data. A few screens later, including one asking me to register with SugarCRM (which I skipped), I was ready to go.

All in all - a very easy installation.