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title: "Open-Source Edition for On-Premises Installation"
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updated: 2025-10-21T02:59:41Z
published: 2025-10-21T02:59:41Z
canonical: "docs.processmaker.com/open-source-edition-for-on-premises-installation"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.processmaker.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Open-Source Edition for On-Premises Installation

**System Requirements**

See these on-premises server requirements prior to installing the ProcessMaker Platform open-source edition on-premises.

ProcessMaker Platform Spring 2024 has the following system requirements:

- [Laravel framework version 8](https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/releases)
- MySQL 8.0
- PHP 8.1 or later

## On-Premises Server Requirements

> [!NOTE]
> The following server requirements are only for a ProcessMaker Platform on-premises installation. Since ProcessMaker Platform is primarily an Enterprise cloud solution, these server requirements do not apply to cloud instances.

ProcessMaker Platform is built on [Laravel 10 framework](https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/releases).

The following are server requirements to install ProcessMaker Platform on-premises:

- **Core server components:** Ensure your server has the following core components:
  - PHP 8.2 or later
  - Composer Dependency Manager 2 for PHP
  - **PHP extensions:**
    - BCMath
    - Ctype
    - Curl
    - Dom
    - GD
    - Imagick
    - IMAP
    - JSON
    - Mbstring
    - MySQL
    - OpenSSL
    - PDO
    - SQLlite3
    - Tokenizer
    - XML
    - ZIP
  - **Operating system:** Ubuntu 20.04 or later recommended
  - **Database:** MySQL 8.0
  - **Web server:** NGINX 1.x or later with PHP-FPM
  - **Container server:** Docker 20 or later
  - **Queue and cache server:** Single-node Redis 5.0.3
  - **JavaScript engine:** Node 16.15.0

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## Instructions

Are you ready to get started with the next-generation intelligent business process management software (iBPMs) platform?

> [!NOTE]
> The Open-Source edition does not have commercial support.

Follow the next instruction to get a ProcessMaker Platform Open-Source instance:

1. [Download the Open-Source edition today](https://github.com/ProcessMaker/processmaker/releases).
2. [Follow the installation instructions](https://github.com/ProcessMaker/processmaker?tab=readme-ov-file#processmaker-4-documentation).
3. Go to `https://localhost` or the IP address/domain name you specified. Use the following credentials to [log on](https://docs.processmaker.com/docs/participant-basics#log-on-to-processmaker-platform):
  1. Username: `admin`
  2. Password: `admin`
4. After you log on for the first time, you may begin managing user accounts and groups.