What is DaaS?

DaaS is a Drag and Drop website builder and a powerful next generation CMS. It's based on the PHP Laravel Framework. You can use it to make any kind of website, online store, and blog. The Drag and Drop technology allows you to build your website without any technical knowledge.

The core idea of the software is to let you create your own website, online shop or blog. From this moment of creation, your journey towards success begins. Supporting you along the way will be different modules, customizations and features of the CMS. Many of them are specifically tailored for e-commerce enthusiasts and bloggers.

The most important thing you need to know is that DaaS pairs the latest Drag & Drop technology, with a revolutionary Real-Time Text Writing & Editing feature. This pair of features delivers an improved user experience, easier and quicker content management, a visually appealing environment, and flexibility.

Drag & Drop

Real Time Text Editing

Powerful Admin Panel

E-commerce Solution

Requirements

• HTTP server
• Database server
• PHP >= 7.3
  • lib-xml must be enabled (with DOM support)
  • GD PHP extension

HTTP Server

Apache

The mod_rewrite module must be enabled in your Apache configuration. DaaS creates the necessary .htaccess files during installation, including one with Deny All directive in each folder to ensure that there are no entry points other than index.php.

nginx

Add this location directive to your server configuration block. The root directive must point to the base folder of your DaaS website (which by default is where this readme is located).

server {
  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
  }
}

IIS

You can easily import the .htaccess rewrite rules. Make sure you have enabled the URL Rewrite module for your website.

Database

You have several choices for database engine: MySQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL. For small websites we highly recommend SQLite. However, you can connect to more storage services (like MongoDB or Neo4j) and take advantage of the Laravel framework.

On the installation screen you can only choose from databases enabled in your PHP configuration. If you don't see your server of choice in the list you have to enable the corresponding PDO extension for your database server. An example for Microsoft SQL Server. PHP usually comes with PDO enabled by default but you might have to uncomment or add extension directives to your php.ini.

Installation

Via Composer

Installing dependencies

You need to have Composer installed in order to download DaaS's dependencies.

You can clone and install DaaS with one command:

This will install DaaS in a folder named my_site.

Another way is to first clone the repository and then run composer install in the base directory.

File permissions

Make sure these folders, and everything inside, is writeable by the user executing the PHP scripts:

• config/
• storage/
• userfiles/