Installation

Where to Start

The official ChurchCRM website provides a complete, step-by-step installation guide covering the most common hosting scenarios:

Official Installation Guide — Covers Softaculous (one-click), cPanel manual, and direct download methods.

A video walkthrough is also available: Installation Tutorial

System Requirements

Before installing, confirm your server meets the minimum requirements:

• System Requirements — PHP version, required extensions, database version, and file permissions

Installation Guides

Detailed guides for specific hosting environments:

• Self-Hosted on Linux — Linux VPS setup; includes links to Rocky Linux and Ubuntu guides
• cPanel Shared Hosting — Shared hosting using cPanel tools
• Azure — Microsoft Azure cloud setup with Ubuntu and Apache

After Installation

Once the application is running:

• First Run Configuration — Configure your church details and initial settings
• FAQs — Frequently asked questions