Install LePress

LePress

Welcome! Fill in a few details and you'll be publishing in under a minute.

Requirements

✓ PHP 8.1 or newer (this server: 8.2)
✓ PDO extension
✓ SQLite or MySQL PDO driver
✓ JSON extension
✓ mbstring extension
✓ DOM / XML extensions
✓ fileinfo extension
✓ OpenSSL extension
✓ content/ folder is writable
✓ LePress folder is writable
✓ GD or Imagick (image resizing)
✓ intl extension
! sodium extension (recommended)
Recommended (faster). Without it LePress uses its built-in replacement, so licences, signed updates and encrypted keys still work.
✓ zip extension
✓ curl extension

Setup code

To make sure only you can install this site: in your hosting File Manager, open the folder where you put LePress, then content/data, and open install-code.txt. Copy the code inside. The file is deleted once installation succeeds.

Site title Admin usernameEmailPasswordConfirm passwordTimezone

Where should LePress keep your content?

MySQL / MariaDBRecommended Best for: growing sites, magazines and news, businesses, several writers, lots of comments, forms or newsletter sign-ups. You need: a database and a user, made in your hosting panel first (about 2 minutes). Built-in database (SQLite) Best for: personal blogs, portfolios and small business sites with one or a few writers. You need: nothing. It is a file inside your site, created for you.

Which one should I choose?

Visitors: both handle a lot of traffic, because LePress serves pages from its cache without asking the database. What matters is how much is saved at the same moment.
Several writers saving at once, busy comments, forms, polls or a newsletter: choose MySQL.
A big archive (tens of thousands of posts) or a site you expect to grow: choose MySQL.
You want your host's database backups and phpMyAdmin: choose MySQL.
A personal blog or a small site, and nothing to set up: the built-in database is simplest and fast.
You cannot switch with one click later, so if you are unsure, choose MySQL.

First, in your hosting panel (cPanel: MySQL Databases): create a database, create a user with a password, and add the user to the database with All privileges. cPanel puts your account name in front of both names, for example myaccount_lepress.

Database nameDatabase userDatabase password Database hostAlmost always localhost. Your host tells you if it is different. Port

How much should the dashboard show?

Easy RecommendedThe essentials, with a guided setup: logo, colours, pages. Perfect if this is your first website. AdvancedEvery tool and setting, for people who know their way around.

You can switch any time from the top of the dashboard. It only changes what you see.

Pick a design (optional; you can change it any time) Also add the design’s sample pages, posts and menus, when it has them (you can remove them later in one click)

Have a license key? (optional)

License key

Unlocks Pro designs and modules from CodeWebMedia.com. Skip it to start on LePress Free; you can add a key any time under Settings → License. If the license server can’t be reached, the key is saved and checked again later.