Getting Started

Run BizzCMS on your own computer in a few minutes. No Cloudflare account is needed for this.

What you need

• Node.js 24 (LTS) and npm. Check with node -v.
• Git.

Install and start

git clone https://github.com/BizzCMS/bizzcms.git
cd bizzcms
npm ci
npm run setup
npm run dev

npm run setup prepares the local database and creates your administrator. It is safe to run again; it never resets your account or content.

Sign in

1. Open http://127.0.0.1:8787/admin.
2. Sign in as [email protected]. The password is in the file private/local-admin.txt.
3. You land on the Dashboard.

Next time, npm run dev is all you need. Stop it with Ctrl+C.

Find your way around

Sidebar	What it is for
Dashboard	An overview: content, media, users and live requests.
Content	All pages, posts and categories.
Blog / News	Your posts, split by section, with counts.
Collections	The content types of your site.
Users	People who can sign in, and their roles.
Plugins	Features you can switch on and off, including SEO and Google Analytics.
Settings	General settings, security and API access.
Dark mode	Switch between light and dark.

Good to know

• Locally, the database, media and cache are emulated in the folder .wrangler/. Delete it only if you want to start over with an empty site.
• E-mails are printed in the terminal instead of being sent.

Next: Writing and Editing or Deploying to Cloudflare.