SPOKE TOO SOON. I had forgotten to edit the admin user fields, and pressed Install. It alerted me to this... but continued with the install! So I filled in the fields even though the spinning activity wheel was present (Chrome on a Mac). A few minutes later, as I was logged in somehow and editing the details for my company, it all crashed with a note about a fatal db error. I will try ONE MORE TIME, and if it still doesn't work, I'm turning my back on this infernal app.

The error this time, in the logs, was a table not being found. But, it failed as soon as I pressed INSTALL, and gave me a 500 error. I will try one more time, fresh.

There were errors which meant the civicrm wasn't installable. I am not sure how to proceed

Looks like perhaps you didn't give it the correct mysql credentials to me:

@luckow said in CiviCRM | Open source constituent relationship management for non-profits, NGOs and advocacy organizations:

Credentials for mysql -> (easiest way) open credentials.txt in the filemanager

Open civicrm.example.com. Install CiviCRM.
Credentials for mysql -> (easiest way) open credentials.txt in the filemanager

Thanks for this, but I wasn't able to complete it.

For "open civicrm", you can just click on the GLAMP (LAMP) application in cloudron and it will take you to the CiviCRM page.

There were errors which meant the civicrm wasn't installable. I am not sure how to proceed

@luckow Instead of ln -s to /app/data/public, I extracted the tar to that directory. Permissions were all fine.

So you're saying you have it up and running? Because I did essentially what you outlined, and it didn't work.

I did exactly step by step what @luckow wrote and had it up and running within a minute. Though I didn’t manage to get the cron working and didn’t liked the UI so waiting for v6.

So you're saying you have it up and running? Because I did essentially what you outlined, and it didn't work.

• install LAMP on your Cloudron
• open the webterminal
• cd /app/data/
• wget https://storage.googleapis.com/civicrm/civicrm-stable/5.80.1/civicrm-5.80.1-standalone.tar.gz
• tar -xzf civicrm-5.80.1-standalone.tar.gz
• rm -rf public civicrm-5.80.1-standalone.tar.gz
• ln -s civicrm-standalone public
• chown -R www-data: civicrm-standalone public

Open civicrm.example.com. Install CiviCRM.
Credentials for mysql -> (easiest way) open credentials.txt in the filemanager

What is CiviCRM Standalone?

Standalone is a release of CiviCRM that runs independent of any CMS. No Drupal, no Wordpress, no Backdrop, no Joomla. Pure CiviCRM, if you will. If you don’t need functionality from the CMS side, then Standalone gives you all the features of CiviCRM in a simpler and faster package.
And now it’s finished?

Well… no. But nor is CiviCRM generally. Anyone who’s worked with complex software like CiviCRM will know, it’s never finished...

You can get a standalone version 5.80.1 from here -> https://civicrm.org/download
Installation in a Cloudron LAMP app, works without problems.

So everything looks like a valid release candidate. But taken from here https://civicrm.org/blog/josh/announcing-civicrm-6, the next major release is planned for
05 march 2025.

Should we take the time to install CiviCRM standalone in a Cloudron LAMP app and help the community debug - and launch with a Cloudron app after version 6 is released?

That's great news. I think it would make sense to package the standalone app for Cloudron when it's available.

I think it is available, no?

This repo contains resources to run CiviCRM on Docker.
https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-docker

The Standalone version of CiviCRM is now available.

It will be finalized with CiviCRM version 6, announced for March 5.

https://civicrm.org/blog/josh/announcing-civicrm-6

If, like me, you don't want to take advantage of the CMS (Drupal, Wordpress, Backdrop or Joomla) features with CiviCRM, then the Standalone version is welcome and facilitates maintenance.

it would be nice to package it

https://docs.civicrm.org/installation/en/latest/standalone/

https://docs.civicrm.org/installation/en/latest/standalone/

This runs as a WordPress plugin. I've run it with no major issues on Cloudron-installed WP before. If anyone wants to give it a spin and file any particular bug reports noticed, then that's an option, but is likely best positioned to be taken care of after other WordPress package changes that are in process right now

I recommend the Drupal version.

These issues have been reported to me.

graham
11:51 AM

first thing we spotted, which wasn't an issue initially - so I'm guessing it got messed up after an update a couple of months ago, is that the personalised links that we can send out via email weren't working, so when members were hitting the renewal form it wasn't recognising who they were. This was bad.

then later yesterday I realised that payments weren't getting completed, which is very bad. So, two urgent issues to resolve.