Operators Guide

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Operators Guide

This track is for people running Spora — installing it, configuring it, backing it up, and keeping 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.

What you’ll do here

  1. Install — five routes: standard, shared host, dev mode, Docker, troubleshooting
  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.