Server Requirements

For production we highly recommend a *nix based system.

Webserver

• Apache >= 2.2
  • mod_rewrite
  • .htaccess support (AllowOverride All)
• Nginx

PHP >= 5.6

Both mod_php and FCGI (FPM) are supported.

Required Settings and Modules & Extensions

• memory_limit >= 128M
• upload_max_filesize and post_max_size >= 100M (depending on your data)
• pdo_mysql or mysqli
• iconv
• dom
• simplexml
• gd
• exif
• file_info
• mbstring
• zlib
• zip
• bz2
• openssl
• opcache
• CLI SAPI (for Cron Jobs)
• Composer (added to $PATH)

Recommended Modules & Extensions

• imagick (if not installed gd is used instead, but with less supported image types)
• curl (required if Google APIs are used)
• phpredis (recommended cache backend adapter)

MySQL / MariaDB >= 5.5.3

Features

• InnoDB / XtraDB storage engine
• MyISAM storage engine (only if InnoDB full-text indexes are not supported)
• MEMORY storage engine

Permissions

All permissions on database level, specifically:

• Select, Insert, Update, Delete table data
• Create tables
• Drop tables
• Alter tables
• Manage indexes
• Create temp-tables
• Lock tables
• Execute
• Create view
• Show view

Additional Server Software

• FFMPEG (>= 3)
• Ghostscript (>= 9.16)
• LibreOffice (>= 4.3)
• wkhtmltoimage / wkhtmltopdf (>= 0.12)
• xvfb
• html2text (mbayer)
• timeout (GNU core utils)
• pdftotext (poppler utils)
• inkscape
• zopflipng
• pngcrush
• jpegoptim
• pngout
• advpng
• cjpeg (MozJPEG)
• exiftool

Please visit Additional Tools Installation for additional information.

Browser Requirements

Pimcore supports always the latest 2 versions of all 4 major browsers at the time of a release.

• Google Chrome (Recommended)
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer / Edge
• Apple Safari