I thought I would write this guide for installing SugarCRM step by step onto a cPanel hosting account.   The reason I chose cPanel as this example is that it support all of the features that SugarCRM requires.  This will vary as features can be disabled depending on the features allowed by your hosting provider.   We will examine the features required in Part 1 to use SugarCRM in cPanel. This article is intended for those with shared hosting accounts or don’t have access to the WHM to configure server-wide settings.  I will be following up this series with another article on configuring WHM for hosting SugarCRM Clients.  Keep a lookout for the Hosting SugarCRM with cPanel.

cPanel Required Options

cPanel runs on Redhat Enterprise or CentOS most effectively. cPanel support the required versions of Apache web server and meets those requirements.

PHP Requirements

The PHP version on your server needs to be one of the following version:

PHP versions 5.1.0 – 5.1.2, 5.1.4, 5.1.6, 5.2.1-5.2.6, 5.2.8

Newer versions of PHP may work without problems with the current version of SugarCRM. At the time of this writing SugarCRM version was 5.2c on newer versions check with SugarCRM release notes for the current version. I know cPanel currently supports up to PHP version 5.2.9.

Additional modules that are good to have  imap,xml,xsl

MySQL Database Requirements.

MySQL versions 4.1x, 5.0x, 5.1 will all work with the current verson of SugarCRM. cPanel installs by default vers 5.x and witll work with SugarCRM.  You may find some still using version 4.1 this is the minimum version of MySQL that will work for SugarCRM current version.