System Requirements

Joomla Requirements Server Requirements PHP Configurations Server Setup
Joomla 2.5
Joomla 3 higher
Minimum mySQL version 4.2.1
Minimum PHP version 5.0 (NOTE: To use the Geolocation feature you need PHP 5.3)
Server operating system - Unix, Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
GD library is installed; (required for picture resize)
allow_url_fopen enabled; ( required for update of apps )
safe_mode is disabled; (recommended)
cURL support is enabled; (recommended)
file_uploads is enabled; (recommended)
fsockopen support is enabled; (recommended)
memory_limit - 32M
post_max_size - 8M
Ability to override options in .htaccess file
Ability to run cron jobs
  • We highly recommend a Linux based server rather than a Windows server (Windows servers are known for PHP configuration problems).
  • Although all Applications are still working very well with Joomla 1.5 environments, we no longer provide any technical support.
  • recommended: mean some features might not be possible if this option not enabled.
  • Saturday, 12 January 2013