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Introduction

OctoberCMS (find it at octobercms.com) is a pretty, versatile and very capable CMS, or even more an ACS (Application Creation System). Although there is an extensive documentation available on the projects homepage, for a beginner it is not easy to find all the information required. Especially when starting from scratch.

Ways to use OctoberCMS

OctoberCMS is a versatile system, so it can be used for various purposes. Let's sum up the most important:

  1. to manage some content in WYSIWYG mode
  2. to create HTML code based content
  3. to create HTML & PHP code based content
  4. to create web applications (the unique strength of october)

Technical requirements

Technical requirements for octoberCMS are almost simple, no advanced prerequisites are recommended. What you need is:

  1. Some webspace - shared hosting or a dedicated server or a NAS with http server capabilities - or a local environment on your computer.
  2. A php version 7.2 or later.
  3. If you like or need (for larger projects) a DB engine like mySQL, mariaDB. For small websites the integrated SQLlight will do the job too.