Self-hosted projects using MySQL

Open-source PHP forum software supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite with a modular package system and rich moderation features.

Actively maintained

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Discourse+8

Self-hosted web hosting control panel built around Docker containers, providing isolated per-user environments, resource limits, and integrated DNS, SSL, and management tools.

Actively maintained

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cPanel+19

Self-hosted, multi-user price tracker for products across major and custom stores, with price history, stock tracking, and notifications based on your criteria.

Actively maintained

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CamelCamelCamel+2

Xibo is an open source digital signage platform with a web-based CMS for creating, scheduling, and managing content across one or many display screens.

Open source PHP app to manage domains, SSL certificates, registrars, hosting, DNS, IPs, and related internet assets, with reporting and optional WHM/cPanel data warehousing.

GPL-3.0Likely dormant

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Domain-Monitor+3

Self-hosted web-based amateur radio logging app for QSOs, LoTW uploads, award tracking, and integrations with CAT and digital-mode tools.

MITActively maintained

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DXLab Suite+1

Omeka is a PHP-based open-source web publishing platform for managing, preserving and presenting metadata-rich digital collections and media-rich online exhibits.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Omeka.net+11

Self-hosted PHP web application for logging amateur radio contacts with mapping, analytics, awards tracking and integration with common QSO services.

MITActively maintained

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Club Log+1

Omeka S is a modular PHP CMS for cultural heritage institutions to publish exhibits, manage digital collections, and share metadata across sites.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Omeka.net+11

ILIAS is a PHP-based open-source learning management system for creating courses, assessments, wikis, forums, calendars and extensible training platforms.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Canvas LMS+19

Adds ActivityPub federation to Nextcloud so users can post, follow, and interact with the fediverse while keeping content on their Nextcloud instance.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mastodon (mastodon.social)+7

Minimal, accessible PHP blogging engine with Twig themes, modular Feathers and modules for media, tags, comments, and simple caching. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

BSD-3-ClauseActively maintained

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WordPress.com+10

Self-hosted RSS reader inspired by Google Reader, featuring smart folders, advanced search expressions, clustering, quality scoring, and Fever/Google Reader API compatibility.

MITActively maintained

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Feedly+7

Open-source event tracker that sends push notifications and real-time alerts, with webhook action buttons, PWA support, and a developer-friendly API and SDKs.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Healthchecks.io+6

Open-source event tracker for tech products: ingest key events, send push notifications, run webhook actions, and monitor critical workflows in real time.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Healthchecks.io+10

Self-hosted database backup manager with scheduling, S3-compatible storage, multi-database support, diff viewer and restore capabilities.

MITActively maintained

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Veeam Backup & Replication+9

Open-source PHP membership and user management system for clubs, associations and organizations with roles, events, media, documents and exports.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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WildApricot+14

Feedback management and public roadmap platform for collecting, prioritizing and sharing customer requests; supports Docker, Helm/Kubernetes and multiple storage backends.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Canny+6

Self-hostable Pastebin alternative for sharing and storing code snippets, files, and rich previews with API, OAuth login, folders, and previews for many formats.

MITActively maintained

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SourceForge+2

Open-source Java LMS for course authoring, assessments and institutional learning management with SCORM/QTI support and REST API.

Actively maintained

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Canvas LMS+14

Plainpad is a lightweight self-hosted note-taking app built with PHP and Laravel. It encrypts notes before storage, supports multiple users, and provides an offline-capable PWA.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Evernote+9

Contao is an open-source PHP CMS for building professional, accessible, SEO-friendly and performant websites and web applications; extensible via Symfony bundles and Composer.

LGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Drupal Cloud+19

MintHCM is an open-source HCM platform delivering recruitment, onboarding, time & leave management, employee profiles, performance, analytics, and API integrations.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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BambooHR+19

Tiny Flask app to create encrypted, expiring secrets shareable via private links. Secrets are encrypted and deleted after viewing, expiration, or max attempts.

MITActively maintained

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Onetime Secret+1

Ruby on Rails document management server for uploading, organizing, encrypting and full-text searching PDF documents. Provides a REST API and mobile-friendly web UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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DocuWare+7

Providence is the backend of CollectiveAccess: a PHP-based collections management system for cataloging complex metadata and media with search, GraphQL API, import/export and reporting.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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CONTENTdm+19

Web-based global administration and ban management system for Valve Source engine games, with a PHP web panel, SourceMod plugins, and MySQL/MariaDB backend.

CouchCMS is a PHP-based lightweight CMS that converts static HTML/CSS templates into editable sites with cloned pages, forms, comments and RSS.

Actively maintained

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WordPress.com+12

Open-source Laravel family tree app to record people, relationships, events and media with multi-tenancy, roles, backups and GEDCOM import/export in development.

MITActively maintained

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Family Tree Maker+1

REDAXO is a lightweight, modular PHP CMS offering block/module-based content editing, a media pool, multilingual support, and an extensible AddOn system.

Actively maintained

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WordPress.com+10