Perfex - Powerful Open Source CRM

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

# CentOS/AlmaLinux
sudo dnf update -y

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install -y apache2 php php-cli php-mbstring php-xml php-gd php-curl php-pdo php-mysql nginx mysql-server unzip git

# CentOS/AlmaLinux
sudo dnf install -y httpd php php-cli php-mbstring php-xml php-gd php-curl php-pdo php-mysqlnd nginx mariadb-server unzip git

sudo mysql_secure_installation

-- Log in as root
mysql -u root -p

-- Create database
CREATE DATABASE perfex_crm CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

-- Create user (replace 'strong_password')
CREATE USER 'perfex_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'strong_password';

-- Grant privileges
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON perfex_crm.* TO 'perfex_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

# Example: using wget with the direct link you receive
wget https://217g.com/downloads/perfex_crm_latest.zip -O perfex.zip

# For cPanel, the default public_html path is /home/username/public_html
sudo unzip perfex.zip -d /home/username/public_html/perfex

# Set proper ownership (replace 'username' with your cPanel user)
sudo chown -R username:username /home/username/public_html/perfex

cd /home/username/public_html/perfex

# Directories that need write access
find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

# Files
find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

# Critical writable folders (uploads, cache, logs)
chmod -R 775 application/cache/
chmod -R 775 assets/uploads/
chmod -R 775 system/logs/

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName crm.example.com
    DocumentRoot /home/username/public_html/perfex

    <Directory /home/username/public_html/perfex>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/perfex_error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/perfex_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo a2ensite perfex.conf
sudo systemctl reload apache2

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name crm.example.com;
    root /home/username/public_html/perfex;

    index index.php;
    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
    }

    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg)$ {
        expires 30d;
        access_log off;
    }

    error_log /var/log/nginx/perfex_error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/perfex_access.log;
}

sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx

sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx   # Ubuntu
# or
sudo dnf install certbot python3-certbot-nginx   # AlmaLinux

sudo certbot --nginx -d crm.example.com

   opcache.enable=1
   opcache.memory_consumption=128
   opcache.max_accelerated_files=4000

   crontab -e
   # Add the line below (runs every 5 minutes)
   */5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/username/public_html/perfex/index.php cron > /dev/null 2>&1

   # Database backup
   mysqldump -u perfex_user -p perfex_crm > /backup/perfex_$(date +%F).sql

   # File backup
   rsync -a --delete /home/username/public_html/perfex/ /backup/perfex_files/

   listen 443 ssl http2;

   add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
   add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
   add_header Referrer-Policy "no-referrer-when-downgrade";

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /assets/uploads/
  Disallow: /system/