You are on /setup. Install commands are Getting started. Field rules, error text, and the seven blueprints are the setup wizard guide.

1. Database

Pick an engine and test the connection before Next.

Engine	When it fits	What you enter
SQLite	Local development and a single small site	Nothing. The wizard creates ./db/sveltycms.db.
PostgreSQL	More than one app instance	Host, port 5432, database, user, password
MariaDB / MySQL	A typical VPS	Host, port 3306, database, user, password
MongoDB	A document database or Atlas	A mongodb:// or mongodb+srv:// connection string

If the database already has tables, the wizard asks before it replaces them.

2. Admin account

• Username is 2–50 characters: letters, numbers, and @ $ ! % * # . _ -.
• Email must be a valid address.
• Password is at least 8 characters and includes lower case, upper case, a number, and a symbol. Confirm it on the same step.
• Two-factor authentication can wait until the user profile.

3. Site and blueprint

Set the site name, the production URL (https://…), and the admin and content languages. English and German ship compiled. Extra language codes are written when setup completes.

The country field starts on Germany: euro, German shop text, 19% and 7%. Change the country and the currency, shop language, and tax fields update. Choose “Choose later”, or clear the standard rate, and no tax row is created. Germany, Austria, and Switzerland suggest German shop text. Every other country suggests English. The suggested rates were checked on 5 October 2026. They are a starting point, not a tax ruling.

Then pick one blueprint. Website Starter is the recommended default. It creates pages and seeds Home, a legal page, and Privacy. The legal page is Impressum for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Mentions légales for France, Aviso legal for Spain, Note legali for Italy, Bedrijfsgegevens for the Netherlands, and Legal notice otherwise. Replace that text before a public launch. The other cards are Blog, Agency, SaaS, Corporate, E-commerce, and Blank. Each card lists the collections it creates. The list is in the setup wizard guide.

Multi-tenant mode, Redis, and cloud media storage are on this step and can stay off.

4. Email

Optional. Skip it and set SMTP later in settings. If you fill it in, send the test message before Next.

5. Review and complete

Read the summary. Complete writes the admin user, the blueprint collections, and config/private.ts, then signs you in. You land on the first collection, or on /login when the blueprint created none (Blank).

After setup

• /setup redirects to /login.
• /api/setup answers 403.
• With Website Starter, open / for the homepage, then replace the text on the legal page and on Privacy.
• Connection settings stay in config/private.ts. Running the wizard again means pointing it at a database that has no administrator yet. See recovery.
• A shop is the E-commerce blueprint, then the Commerce plugin. Continue in E-commerce.

Next

• Setup wizard guide — every field and the blueprint list
• Collections — add a collection the blueprint did not include