Installing LAMP and ChurchCRM on Azure

Installing LAMP and ChurchCRM on Azure

1. On Azure

   1. Click Virtual Machines
   2. Click Create Virtual Machines
   3. Select Ubuntu Server
   4. Select Ubuntu Server 24.04 or latest version and click Create
   • Name: LAMPServer
   • VM disk type: SSD
   • User name: lamp
   • Authentication type: Password
   • Password: ****
   • Resource group: Create new: LAMPServer
   • Location: (whatever is best for you)
   • Click OK
   • Select a size that suits you
   • Click OK
   • Availability set: None
   • Use managed disks: Yes
   • Virtual network: leave as default
   • Subnet: leave as default
   • Public IP address: Static
   • Network security group (firewall): leave as default
   • Enable auto-shutdown: Off
   • Boot diagnostics: Enabled
   • Guest OS diagnostics: Disabled
   • Diagnostics storage account: leave as default
   • Click Create
   5. Click Virtual Machines
   6. Click LAMPServer
   • Take note of the Public IP address

2. Download and install an SSH client (I am using PuTTY)

   1. Enter the Public IP address under “Host Name (or IP address)”
   2. Click Open
   3. Click Yes on the prompt (First time only) and a terminal window will open

3. Login

   1. username: lamp
   2. Password: ****

4. Updates

   1. sudo bash
   2. apt-get update
   3. apt-get -y upgrade
   4. apt-get -y dist-upgrade
   5. apt-get -y autoremove

5. Configuring LAMP

   1. apt-get -y install apache2
   2. apt-get -y install mysql-server
   3. Enter MySQLPassword
   4. Confirm MySQLPassword
   5. apt-get -y install php
   6. apt-get -y install php-curl php-cli php-dev php-gd php-intl php-mcrypt php-json php-mysql php-opcache php-bcmath php-mbstring php-soap php-xml php-zip gettext unzip

6. Allow custom URLs

   1. a2enmod rewrite

7. Create a database

   1. mysql -u root -p
   2. Enter MySQLPassword
   3. CREATE DATABASE churchcrm;
   4. CREATE USER 'churchcrm'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Put\_your\_database\_password\_here';
   5. GRANT ALL ON churchcrm.\* TO churchcrm@'localhost';
   6. exit;

8. Edit 000-default.conf file

   1. Hostname
   • Take note of your hostname
   2. nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
   • Find “#ServerName www.example.com”
   • Remove the # and change www.example.com to the hostname (See step #1)
   • Find “DocumentRoot /var/www/html” and put a forward slash on the end so it looks like this: DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
   3. CTRL+x ; Y ; Enter

9. Edit hosts file

   1. ifconfig
   • Take note of your local IP address
   2. nano /etc/hosts

   • Under 127.0.0.1 localhost put in your local IP address and hostname so it looks like this (yours might be different):

     ```
     127.0.0.1 localhost
     10.0.0.4 LAMPServer
     ```
     

   3. CTRL+x ; Y ; Enter

10. Edit apache2.conf file

11. nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf * Find:

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

* Change `AllowOverride` from `None` to `All`

2. CTRL+x ; Y ; Enter
3. Edit php.ini file
4. nano /etc/php/X.X/apache2/php.ini (replace X.X with your PHP version) * Under "[PHP];" * Add: register_globals=0; * Find memory_limit = 128M and change it to 32M * Find upload_max_filesize = 2M and change it to 24M * Find post_max_size = 8M and change it to 32M
5. CTRL+x ; Y ; Enter
6. Remove index.html
7. rm /var/www/html/index.html
8. Configure ChurchCRM (USE THIS VERSION!!!)
9. wget https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM/releases/download/2.9.4/ChurchCRM-2.9.4.zip
10. unzip ChurchCRM-2.9.4.zip
11. rsync -av churchcrm/ /var/www/html/
12. chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
13. chmod -R 755 /var/www/html
14. RESTART the virtual machine
15. On Azure
16. Click Virtual Machines
17. Click LAMPServer
18. Click Networking
19. Click Add inbound port rule * In the Service drop down select HTTP * Change the Name to HTTP_in and click OK
20. Click Add outbound port rule * In the Service drop down select HTTP * Change the Name to HTTP_out and click OK
21. Click Add outbound port rule * In the Service drop down select SMTP * Change the Name to SMTP25_out and click OK
22. Click Add outbound port rule * In the Service drop down select Custom * Change the Port ranges to 587 * Change the Name to SMTP587_out and click OK
23. In your browser
24. Enter your public IP address in the URL bar * You should be greeted with ChurchCRM’s setup page
25. Click Next
26. Click Next
27. Click Next
28. Database Server Name: localhost
29. Database Name: churchcrm
30. user: churchcrm
31. password: **** * Your MySQL password
32. Click Finish
33. On the login page
34. Username: Admin
35. Password: changeme
36. Click Login
37. Old Password: changeme
38. New Password: ****
39. Update to the latest version
40. Click the Tasks icon in top right corner and click new release
41. follow the prompts