Attempting to install SuiteCRM plugins on localhost leads to invalid URLs

Question

I am exploring SuiteCRM and have to that end deployed SuiteCRM 7.13.4 on localhost using XAMPP with all appropriate software versions of PHP and so on. Everything works thus far. I can reach and operate the site, successfully installed a language packet. But once I went ahead and wanted to install third party plugins from the SuiteCRM store (in particular the MS Teams integration and the Office 365 plugin) I am met with a message that my server URL is invalid (see image below). I am absolutely clueless as to the cause of this.

error message of the office 365 plugin error of the MS teams integration

Well, I expected the installation to run through first try but that wasn't the case. Well, first I considered SSL the culprit. Fixed that, but installing plugins still didn't work. Then I tried to activate CORS and that didn't help either.

Answer 1

1. The MS Teams Integration error is due to the HTTPS://subdomain.domain.com restriction. Since, their documentation refers to SugarOnDemand URL, i.e.,

https://implicit.sugarondemand.com

so you need to create a Virtual Host on your machine (in the same format as above) and then, add that vhost URL as the CRM Address.

2. If the issue still persists, then, open the .htaccess file on the SuiteCRM instance and allow Cross Origin Resource Sharing as follows:

Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"

Header add Access-Control-Allow-Methods: "GET,POST,OPTIONS,DELETE,PUT"

3. Lastly, the Callbacks from the Teams integration will not work in certain scenarios do to localhost setup. Therefore, it is better to deploy the SuiteCRM instance on a development server (on the www) to get 100% working integration.