Operators Guide

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Operators Guide

This track is for running a Spora instance after install — configuring it via env-vars, securing it, doing day-2 ops, and backing it up. If you are a developer working on Spora itself, see the Developers guide. If you are using the admin UI, see the End user guide. For host setup (Docker, Apache, shared host, local), see the Deployment guide.

What you’ll do here

  1. Install — standard install (Packagist) + troubleshooting. For Docker, Classical, or Shared host, see the Deployment guide.
  2. Configure — env vars, customization strategies, theming
  3. Environment variables — full .env reference
  4. Security — credential encryption, auth, rate limiting, plugin risks
  5. Day-2 operations — backups, plugin management, updates, logs, workers, reset
  6. Backups — detailed backup strategy

A note on shared hosting

Spora is designed to run on a shared cPanel/FTP host with PHP 8.4+. That is the original target environment and the one with the most polish. The Docker path is a convenience for the same architecture. See the Deployment guide for the long-form scenario pages.