Configure Panel

The Panel is a Laravel application. Review its actual .env.example and the matching release notes before changing environment variables.

Application and encryption

Set APP_ENV=production, APP_DEBUG=false and APP_URL to the public HTTPS URL. Generate APP_KEY once on a fresh install, store an encrypted backup of it and preserve it across upgrades. Never expose .env through your web server.

Application database versus Cell database hosts

DB_* settings connect the Panel itself to its application database. Customer Cell databases use separately configured database hosts in Admin. Assign those hosts to destination Nodes and configure primary/fallback priority and capacity there; do not enter destination administrator credentials independently for each migration.

Queue, cache and scheduler

Choose the queue/cache drivers supported by your release. Keep queue:work supervised and run schedule:run once per minute. Confirm any custom queue names in the HivePanel source or release documentation.

Mail and authentication

Configure the release's mail transport if you use invitations, password resets or verification. Use the documented first-administrator bootstrap flow; this documentation snapshot does not establish a specific CLI command.

Web server and Worker

Serve only public/ through HTTPS. Configure each Node's Worker using the matching release, then check Node connectivity in Admin. See Install Panel, Install Worker and Post-installation.