Installation & Administration

This guide is for the person installing and maintaining Open Core HR. For everyday HR and employee tasks, open the User Manual.

Open Core HR is a self-hosted Laravel application supplied with source code. Its marketing and documentation sites can run on Cloudflare; the HR application needs a PHP application server and database.

This guide accompanies version 1.0.0 in release preparation. These deployment recipes are checked against repository configuration. Fresh installations on the named hosting platforms still need verification before those platforms are advertised as supported.

Installation sequence

1. Check requirements and hosting.
2. Prepare the source package, domain and database.
3. Follow the recipe for cPanel, Linux VPS, another platform or local development.
4. Configure and initialize the application.
5. Set up email and background services.
6. Complete the installation checklist.

Keep third-party licence notices with the installation. Use the final purchase package for customer licence and support terms.