NovFora installer

Set up your community in a few steps — no SSH or command line required.

  1. 1 · System
  2. 2 · Database
  3. 3 · Site & admin
  4. 4 · Install
  5. 5 · Done

System check

NovFora runs on a baseline shared host (PHP 8.3+, MySQL, cron). Red items must be fixed before continuing; amber items are recommendations.

✓ PHP version ≥ 8.3.0 — Running PHP 8.5.4.
✓ PHP extension: pdo — Loaded.
✓ PHP extension: mbstring — Loaded.
✓ PHP extension: openssl — Loaded.
✓ PHP extension: tokenizer — Loaded.
✓ PHP extension: ctype — Loaded.
✓ PHP extension: json — Loaded.
✓ PHP extension: fileinfo — Loaded.
✓ PHP extension: zip — Loaded.
✓ PHP extension: gd (recommended) — Loaded.
✓ PHP extension: pdo_mysql (recommended) — Loaded.
✓ PHP extension: intl (recommended) — Loaded.
✓ Writable: ./.env — Writable.
✓ Writable: ./storage/framework — Writable.
✓ Writable: ./storage/logs — Writable.
✓ Writable: ./storage/app — Writable.
✓ Writable: ./bootstrap/cache — Writable.

Detected deployment tier: Baseline

The same code runs on both tiers. Optional services (Redis, Meilisearch, Reverb, S3) light up automatically when you configure them later — no reinstall.

Setup token. For security, the installer is locked to whoever can read a file on your server. Open storage/install-token.txt (via FTP or your host's file manager) and paste its contents below.