Setup SugarCRM as a sub-domain

[chacko]

Hello,

I am very new to Sugar CRM and we are in the process of evaluating Sugar CRM. I have installed Sugar CRM using the "Bitrock Windows Installer 4.5.1" installation package.

I was able to successfully install Sugar CRM and setup users. Currently, I have the application running on www.mydomain.com:8080/sugarcrm. I was wondering if there is a way for me to configure Sugar to run on a sub-domain instead of hanging from the top-level domain. I am not very familiar with Apache. So, I am basically looking at being able to run Sugar from something like sugarcrm.mydomain.com.

Can someone point me in the right direction or direct me to some documentation that I can refer to set this up?

Operating System: Windows 2003 Server
Sugar Suite Version: 4.5.1 (Build 1197)

Thanks in advance,
Chacko.

[amymicheals]

Hi,

Is there anyway for you to create that subdoamin from windows server. usually you can create that from your website control panel. Then when you have that subdomain created, you should install the sugar package there. Try searching subdomain in the windows server help area or you can google how to setup a subdomain with windows server.


Amy

[chacko]

Well Amy, I did some more research on this and was able to come up with a solution. Here is what I did.

1. Just like setting up a sub-domain in IIS, the first step would be to create a DNS entry in the top-level domain registration for the sub-domain name. You will need to create an 'A' record or a 'CNAME' record depending on your situation. Refer to a link at the end of this post for more information. Also, keep in mind that you will need to give this DNS entry some time to propogate. Your domain registrant control panel might say that it will take upto 48 hours to propogate. However, if your top-level domain is a .COM, it would propogate in a few hours.

2. The next step is to setup this new sub-domain in Apache. You basically need to edit \apache2\conf\httpd.conf file and add the entry for "VirtualHost" for this sub-domain.

Here is a useful link I fould that explains the process.

http://content.websitegear.com/artic...main_setup.htm

The last section in the article above explains how to edit the httpd.conf to add a sub-domain. So, my version of httpd.conf file looks like this.

NameVirtualHost *:8080
<VirtualHost *:8080>
DocumentRoot "d:/Program Files/sugarcrm-4.5.1/htdocs"
ServerName sugarcrm.mydomain.com
</VirtualHost>

Once this was setup, I was able to get to the Sugar using http://sugarcrm.mydomain.com:8080

Hope this helps.

Chacko.