Blesta is a well-written, security-focused, user and developer-friendly client management, billing, and support application.

• PHP version 5.1.3
• PDO, pdo_mysql, curl (version 7.10.5), and openssl (version 0.9.6) PHP extensions.
• MySQL version 5.0.17
• Apache, IIS, or LiteSpeed Web Server
• ionCube PHP loader

If you are running PHP 5.5, you must apply the hotifx from /hotfix-php5.5/blesta/ to /blesta/ before uploading files to your web server.

For recommended requirements and additional information, please see the documentation.

To install, upload the contents of blesta to your web server and visit this location in your browser.

For more detailed instructions, please see the documentation for installing Blesta.

Note! Back up your database and files before beginning an upgrade.

To upgrade, overwrite the files in your existing installation and access ~/admin/upgrade in your browser.

For more detailed instructions, please see the documentation for upgrading Blesta.

Note! Back up your database and files before applying a patch.

Patches contain all patches issued for the minor release. For example, a patch labeled 3.0.6 will contain all patches issued from 3.0.1, so it is not necessary to apply patches incrementally.

To patch your installation, overwrite the files in your existing installation and access ~/admin/upgrade in your browser.

For more detailed instructions, please see the documentation for patching Blesta.