Health Check

Health Check is a small block on the administration dashboard that runs a handful of live checks on your installation and flags anything that needs attention — no need to dig through configuration files to spot common misconfigurations.

The Health check block on the administration dashboard, showing pass/fail status for e-mail settings, admin URL assignment, and file permission checks

Accessing Health Check

From the administration panel, the Health check block appears alongside the other dashboard blocks — no click needed, the results are shown directly.

The Checks

• E-mail settings — Verifies that a mailer connection string and a "from" e-mail/name are configured. If not, links to Mail settings to fix it.

• All URLs have at least one admin assigned — On a multi-URL install, checks that every access URL has at least one administrator who can manage it. If one doesn't, links to the access URL/user assignment page.

• .env is not writable — .env holds secrets and should not be writable by the web server after installation. Flagged as an error if it is; links to the Security Guide.

• config/ is not writable — Same reasoning as .env: this directory should not be web-writable in normal operation. Links to the Security Guide.

• var/cache is writable — The opposite check: Symfony needs to write to its cache directory, so this one is flagged as an error if it isn't writable. Links to the Performance Tuning / optimization guide.

• Install folder is not present — The public/main/install folder is only needed during installation and should be removed afterward. This is flagged as a warning (not a hard error) if it still exists, since it's a lower-severity risk than the two writability checks above. Links to the Security Guide.

What to Do About It

Each check links directly to where you'd fix the underlying issue — either a settings page or the relevant guide. Run through this list right after installation, and periodically afterward (for example, after a manual file transfer or permissions change), since a passing check today doesn't guarantee it stays that way. For a broader production hardening checklist beyond these six checks, see the Security Guide.