OpenFed
OpenFed is the multilingual distribution developed for the Belgian federal public services — government-grade accessibility (WCAG), serious multilingual support and conservative, well-tested component choices. Those qualities travel well beyond Belgium: it's a sober foundation for any public body or institution with accessibility obligations.
What ships on BOA
The OFD platform is rebuilt from upstream as BOA releases ship — the
13.6 line on the Drupal 10.6 core at the time of writing, tracking the
version the project itself publishes (upstream keeps OpenFed 13.x on the
Drupal 10 track). The platform name in your panel shows the exact version
you're getting. Structural quirk: the docroot is docroot/ rather than
web/.
Installing a site on it
Create a site on the OpenFed platform with the openfed profile. The first
thing a fresh install shows you is its language selection screen — that's
the distribution's multilingual heart working as designed, not an error page.
Pick your language(s) and carry on; everything else is standard Drupal
administration.
Good to know
- Accessibility conformance lives in the distribution's components and your content choices; the hosting layer keeps out of the way — clean URLs, HTTPS (HTTPS and certificates) and correct headers are already handled.
- Public-sector sites tend to need audit-friendly backup stories: every site here rides automatic nightly backups plus one-task Backup/Restore on demand (Backups and restores).
Where to go next
- Choosing and managing platforms
— getting
OFDinto your platform list.