Installation and Operation Guides
This section concerns the installation and operation of OpenProject (Community and Enterprise editions).
Overview
| Main Topics | Description |
|---|---|
| System requirements | Learn the minimum configuration required to run OpenProject |
| Installation | How to install OpenProject |
| Operation & Maintenance | Guides on how to configure, backup, upgrade, and monitor your OpenProject installation |
| Advanced configuration | Guides on how to perform advanced configuration of your OpenProject installation |
| Other | Guides on infrequent operations such as MySQL to PostgreSQL migration |
For production environments and when using a supported distribution, we recommend using the packaged installation. This will install OpenProject as a system dependency using your distribution’s package manager, and provide updates in the same fashion that all other system packages do.
A manual installation option is also documented, but due to the large number of components involved and the rapid evolution of OpenProject, we cannot ensure that the procedure is either up-to-date or that it will correctly work on your machine. This mean if installation is NOT recommended.
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