Installation

How to Install

Video

ChurchCRM Requirements?

ChurchCRM requires a PHP-compatible Web server (such as Apache) and can run a MySQL database server. We highly recommend Linux, but the choice is yours. As for PHP and MySQL, we do have the following requirements (in addition to some platform/system-level prerequisites too):

PHP

PHP Version 8.1 or greater (for ChurchCRM 5.x+)
Certain PHP modules (sometimes referred to as extensions) must be enabled:
- php-bcmath
- php-curl
- php-gd
- php-gettext
- php-intl
- php-json
- php-mbstring
- php-mysql
- php-opcache
- php-soap
- php-sodium
- php-xml
- php-zip
register_globals turned OFF (see below)
Phar extension must be enabled.

MySQL Server

Version 5.5 or greater

WebServer

We are tested on apache2 with the following settings:

mod_rewrite must be enabled

<VirtualHost *:8080>
   DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/workspace/src
   ServerName https://${C9_HOSTNAME}:443

   LogLevel info

   ErrorLog /home/ubuntu/workspace/error.log
   CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

   <Directory /home/ubuntu/workspace>
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
       AllowOverride All
       Require all granted
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

ServerName https://${C9_HOSTNAME}

Also see System locale.