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These pages cover special installation instructions for Backdrop CMS.

Backdrop may be installed in a variety of manners that increase the robustness of the site and may improve performance. Most configuration of Backdrop happens in the settings.php file.

Using Bee

You can use bee to download and install Backdrop from the command line. See the documentation for these core functions in the Bee Wiki

Download Backdrop CMS Core

At the simplest you can download the latest release of Backdrop to a target directory of "docroot" (if you omit the directory it will download to the current directory).

bee dl-core docroot

Bee does have the option to download a different version of core. For example, you could download the current development version or you could select an earlier release or even a branch. See the documentation for full details.

Install Backdrop CMS

Change into the directory:

cd docroot

You can either install Backdrop using the guided setup:

bee install

Or you can enter some or all of the options on the command line. For example, the following will set the following settings and prompt for the rest:

bee install --db-name=backdrop --db-user=bd_user --db-pass=P@ssw0rd! --db-host=db_server --username=admin --password=N0tS3cur3 --email=admin@example.com --site-name="Example Backdrop Site"

See the documentation for the full list of options you can use with this command as well as the command aliases.