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This wiki is the living half of Planvio's documentation. The other half ships with the code, in docs/, and the split between them is deliberate:

docs/ in the repository	Versioned with the code. If it says Planvio does something, that is true of that release, and a pull request that changes behaviour changes the doc in the same commit.
This wiki	Not versioned. Things learned after a release: a host with an unusual PHP path, a symptom nobody predicted, an answer that came out of a discussion. Anyone can edit it.

The rule of thumb: if it would have to change when the code changes, it belongs in docs/. Everything here should still be true a year from now, or be obviously dated.

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Start here

New to Planvio and want it running?

1. docs/INSTALLATION.md — installing it anywhere
2. docs/CPANEL.md — the no-SSH shared hosting walkthrough, which is the path most people take
3. docs/CRON.md — the two cron entries, and what stops working without them

Evaluating rather than installing? Read docs/LIMITATIONS.md first. It says plainly what Planvio does not do and why, which is a better use of an afternoon than finding out after you have moved your team onto it.

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In this wiki

• FAQ — the questions that come up more than once
• Troubleshooting — symptom, cause, fix
• Hosting Providers — what people have found on specific hosts

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Where to ask

A question	Discussions → Q&A
Something is broken	Open an issue
A rough idea	Discussions → Ideas
A concrete proposal	Feature request
A security problem	Privately — Security tab, never a public issue

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What Planvio needs to run

Worth having in one place, because most installation problems are one of these:

PHP	8.3 or 8.4
Extensions	bcmath ctype curl fileinfo gd json mbstring openssl pdo pdo_mysql tokenizer xml
Database	MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.6+
Web server	Apache or LiteSpeed; Nginx works, see DEPLOYMENT.md
Cron	Two entries — the scheduler and the queue worker
Disk	~350 MB plus your attachments
Document root	Must point at planvio/public, not planvio

And what it deliberately does not need: Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Elasticsearch, Supervisor, systemd, Node in production, Composer in production, root, or SSH.

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