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System Requirements

Operating System

  • Linux distributions such as RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS are recommended for production setups
Operating systems

Linux distributions are the preferred operating systems when setting up a production environment, however you can use Windows 7 and above and Mac OS X 10.9 and above for development purposes.

Web Servers

  • Apache 2.2.x or 2.4.x
  • Nginx latest mainline or stable version

Database Management Systems

  • PostgreSQL 15.1

PHP & PHP CLI version

  • PHP >=8.3
  • PHP CLI, the same version as for the web server

PHP settings

Few updates to default PHP configuration settings should be done in php.ini for the web server and CLI:

  • date.timezone must be set
  • detect_unicode must be disabled
  • memory_limit should be 1Gb or above

Depending on the debugging tools and extensions used during development, the memory_limit may be even higher in the development environment.

If the xdebug is installed (which is not recommended in the production setup):

  • xdebug.scream must be disabled
  • xdebug.show_exception_trace must be disabled
  • xdebug.max_nesting_level above 100

By default, max_execution_time value equals 30 seconds. In case of using the Schema update option, it is recommended to increase this value.

PHP extensions

  • ctype
  • curl
  • fileinfo
  • gd
  • intl (ICU library 4.4 and above)
  • json
  • mbstring
  • sodium
  • openssl
  • pgsql
  • pcre
  • simplexml
  • tokenizer
  • xml
  • zip
  • imap
  • soap
  • bcmath
  • ldap

Process Control

Assets

Used for JS assets minification and SCSS assets build.

Enterprise Edition

Enterprise Edition supports additional software configuration which allows for better support scale and performance. Additional software configuration that are supported:

  • Elasticsearch >=8.4.1, <9.0
    • Elasticsearch is an alternative for the ORM search

PostgreSQL Configuration

PostgreSQL uuid-ossp extension should be loaded for proper doctrine’s guid type handling. In order to enable it, one can connect to the database server and run the following sql query:
CREATE EXTENSION "uuid-ossp";

Browsers

  • Mozilla Firefox (lastest)
  • Google Chrome (lastest)
  • Microsoft Edge (lastest)
  • Safari (latest)

Updated on mei 6, 2024

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