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title: "Easily Self-Host Open Source Mahara in One Click | Kuberns"
description: "Self-host Mautic with one-click AI deployment on Kuberns. Get production-ready marketing automation without any manual configuration."
source: "https://kuberns.com/deploy/mahara"
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# Deploy Mahara in One Click with AI

Open source ePortfolio and social networking platform for education and professional development

## What is Mahara? Why use it?

Mahara is an open source ePortfolio and social networking web application designed for learners, educators, and institutions.
Mahara is widely used by universities, training institutions, and organisations that need a structured platform for documenting learning journeys. It is built to handle multiple users, structured permissions, and persistent portfolio data, which makes proper hosting important.

## Features

Mahara requires 3 secure environment variables during deployment. These values are used to secure URLs, manage password hashing, and configure administrative behaviour.
Once added, Mahara runs securely in production mode. All other infrastructure settings are handled automatically.

## What's Included

### Mahara Deployment: The Kuberns Way of self-hosting

Self-hosting Mahara manually usually requires PHP and web server configuration, Database provisioning, Persistent storage setup etc. 
On Kuberns, this infrastructure complexity is handled automatically. To self host Mahara on Kuberns:

- Choose the Mahara template
- Add the required environment secrets
- Click Deploy
- That's it. Your Mahara instance launches with a production-ready runtime and secure networking already configured.
- No manual server setup. No PHP tuning. No infrastructure management.

### Why Hosting Mahara Manually Gets Complicated?

Educational platforms like Mahara are stateful and multi-user. When hosted manually, common issues include:

- Misconfigured URL secrets
- Incorrect password configuration
- Session handling problems
- Web server and PHP mismatches
- Ongoing maintenance overhead
- For institutions, reliability and security are critical. Manual hosting increases operational risk.

### Built for Educational and Institutional Use

Mahara is not a simple web app. It is designed for Multi-user environments, Structured access control, Long-term data persistence and Institutional reliability. 
Kuberns ensures:

- Stable runtime
- Secure secret handling
- Production-ready configuration
- Predictable infrastructure costs
- You focus on enabling learning and portfolio management. Kuberns ensures the platform runs reliably.

## Key Capabilities

### MAHARA_URL_SECRET

Add This Value

### MAHARA_PASSWORD_SALT_MAIN

Add this value

### MAHARA_WWW_SERVEADMIN

Add this value

## Deploy Now

- **Deploy on Kuberns**: https://kuberns.com/deploy/mahara
- **Documentation**: https://docs.kuberns.com/docs/open-source/OpenClaw
- **No manual configuration required. Get your portfolio platform live in just one click**: https://dashboard.kuberns.com/login