octobercms/october

Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

PHP

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October

October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again. It was born out of frustration with existing systems. We feel building websites has become a convoluted and confusing process that leaves developers unsatisfied. We want to turn you around to the simpler side and get back to basics.

October's mission is to show the world that web development is not rocket science.

Build Status Downloads Version License

Please note: October CMS is source-available software licensed under an End User License Agreement.

Installing October

Instructions on how to install October can be found at the installation guide.

Quick Start Installation

If you have composer installed, run this in your terminal to install October CMS from command line. This will place the files in a directory named myoctober.

composer create-project october/october myoctober

If you plan on using a database, run this command inside the application directory.

php artisan october:install

Learning October

The best place to learn October CMS is by reading the documentation or following some tutorials.

You may also watch this introductory video. Make sure to check out our official YouTube channel. There is also the excellent video series by Watch & Learn.

For code examples of building with October CMS, visit the RainLab Plugin Suite or the October Demos Repo.

Coding Standards

Please follow the following guides and code standards:

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Development Team

October CMS was founded in 2014 by Alexey Bobkov and Sam Georges. Today it is supported by a worldwide network of partners and contributors.

Foundation library

The CMS uses Laravel as a foundation PHP framework.

Contact

For announcements and updates:

To chat or hang out:

License

The October CMS platform is licensed software, see End User License Agreement (EULA) for more details.

backend
cmf
cms
cms-platform
framework
laravel
octobercms
php
platform

octobercms/october

Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

PHP

11,145

11,939 commits

updated Oct 12, 2026

See the code

README

October

October is a Content Management System (CMS) and web platform whose sole purpose is to make your development workflow simple again. It was born out of frustration with existing systems. We feel building websites has become a convoluted and confusing process that leaves developers unsatisfied. We want to turn you around to the simpler side and get back to basics.

October's mission is to show the world that web development is not rocket science.

Build Status Downloads Version License

Please note: October CMS is source-available software licensed under an End User License Agreement.

Installing October

Instructions on how to install October can be found at the installation guide.

Quick Start Installation

If you have composer installed, run this in your terminal to install October CMS from command line. This will place the files in a directory named myoctober.

composer create-project october/october myoctober

If you plan on using a database, run this command inside the application directory.

php artisan october:install

Learning October

The best place to learn October CMS is by reading the documentation or following some tutorials.

You may also watch this introductory video. Make sure to check out our official YouTube channel. There is also the excellent video series by Watch & Learn.

For code examples of building with October CMS, visit the RainLab Plugin Suite or the October Demos Repo.

Coding Standards

Please follow the following guides and code standards:

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Development Team

October CMS was founded in 2014 by Alexey Bobkov and Sam Georges. Today it is supported by a worldwide network of partners and contributors.

Foundation library

The CMS uses Laravel as a foundation PHP framework.

Contact

For announcements and updates:

To chat or hang out:

License

The October CMS platform is licensed software, see End User License Agreement (EULA) for more details.

backend
cmf
cms
cms-platform
framework
laravel
octobercms
php
platform

Project health

Overall

4.6/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

1/10
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