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Installing Convoro

Convoro installs entirely in your browser. The release archive ships with everything bundled — no Composer step, no Node, no command line required. If you can upload a file and create a database, you can run Convoro.

⬇ Download Convoro (.zip) .tar.gz

Self-contained — vendor/ and compiled assets are already inside.

Requirements

The installer checks all of this for you on the first screen and tells you exactly what (if anything) needs fixing.

Shared hosting (no SSH)

1
Create a database. In your hosting panel (cPanel, Plesk, etc.) create an empty database and a user with full access to it. Note the name, user, and password.
2
Download & upload. Download the latest Convoro release (.tar.gz), upload it to your web root, and extract it there.
3
Point your domain at the public/ folder. Most panels let you set the document root. (If you can’t, move the contents of public/ up — see Troubleshooting.)
4
Open your site. Visit your domain — Convoro sends you straight to the /install wizard. Confirm requirements, enter your database details, name your community, and create your admin account.
5
Done. The installer writes your config, runs migrations, and locks itself. You’re live. 🎉

VPS / Composer install

On a server with shell access you can also install from source:

git clone https://github.com/ernestdefoe/convoro.git
cd convoro
composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
npm ci && npm run build      # only if building assets yourself
cp .env.example .env

Then open /install in the browser to finish, or configure .env and run php artisan migrate --force manually. For production traffic, add Redis (cache/queue/sessions), Laravel Reverb (live threads over websockets), and a queue worker.

After installing

Updating

When a new version is available you’ll see a banner in Admin → Marketplace. Click to update — Convoro downloads the release, applies it (preserving your config and uploads), and runs any new migrations. On shared hosting you can also just upload the new archive over the old files; your .env and storage/ are never overwritten.

Extensions & themes

Open Admin → Marketplace and install from the catalog — extensions are published from GitHub, so a one-click install pulls the latest release straight from the repo (no zip uploads, no Packagist). Premium add-ons unlock with a license key, and Composer-capable hosts can also pull packages directly. Click any installed card to configure its settings. To publish your own, see Building extensions.

Troubleshooting

I can’t set the document root to public/

Move everything inside public/ into your web root, then edit index.php so the two require paths point up one level (../ → your install folder).

“No application encryption key”

Convoro generates this automatically on first load. If it persists, make sure the project root is writable so it can save .env.

A requirement shows ✕

Enable the missing PHP extension in your hosting panel (or ask your host), then reload /install.

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