Installation

This page gets Wake running on your own computer, for development or to try it out. To put a site online, see Install on a web host.

What you need

PHP 8.4 or newer with the usual extensions, among them mbstring, gd and zip (full list: system requirements)
Composer

Check with:

php -v
composer -V

Get the code.

git clone https://github.com/IonFlux84/wake.git my-site
cd my-site

Install the dependencies. They go into wake/vendor/.
```
composer --working-dir=wake install
```
The settings file .env is created with a fresh application key on the first request. To create it yourself instead:
```
cp .env.example .env
php wake/artisan key:generate
```
Start the development server.
```
php wake/artisan serve
```
Open http://localhost:8000. You see the demo site from content/.
Create your account. Open http://localhost:8000/wake. On the first visit Wake asks for your name, email address and a password, and makes you the owner of the site. Accounts are stored as files in data/accounts/.

Folder	Contents
`wake/`	the application. Don't change anything here, an update replaces it
`content/`	your pages, posts, categories, tags and media, one folder per entry
`themes/`	the looks of the website, e.g. Tide
`plugins/`	extensions
`settings/`	`config.php`, the settings from the panel (`general.yml`), menus, redirects, roles, consent
`data/`	accounts, statistics, versions, trash and backups. Back it up; never public
`temp/`	caches, locks and logs. Wake makes them again, you may delete them
`public/`	the folder your web server serves

Continue with Your first site. Read Architecture to see how these fit together, and Configuration for everything you can set in settings/config.php.