System Requirements

To safely run PassionEngine in your server we need to have some of the server settings adjusted and some packages installed.

🌸 PassionEngine requires a web server capable of running PHP applications with a database.

Server Requirements

Find the technical requirements on the server side.

Title	Description
Operating System	Linux, Windows or Mac
Software	PHP
Web server	Apache httpd, Nginx, Microsoft IIS, Caddy Server
Database	PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB, MySQL, SQLite

PHP Requirements

Configuration needed for PHP.

Title	Description
PHP version	>= 7.1
File uploads	ON 💚
JSON	ON 💚
MB string	ON 💚
SimpleXML	ON 💚
Zlib	ON 💚
ZIP	ON 💚
MB string overload	OFF 🔴
Session auto start	OFF 🔴
Short open tags	OFF 🔴

Bad options already removed in new PHP releases are not mentioned.

Supplement following the database

The following PHP options are needed depending on your database.

Extension	Database
pdo_mysql	MariaDB & MySQL 💚
pdo_firebird	firebird
pdo_oci	oci
pdo_odbc	odbc
pdo_pgsql	pgsql
pdo_sqlite	sqlite
mysqli	MariaDB & MySQL 🔸
mongodb	mongodb

Prefer to use the PDO extension in all cases.

Web server Requirements

Supported web servers.

Title	Description
Apache httpd	>= 2.4
Nginx	>= 1.8 ❓ Need help
Microsoft IIS	>= 7 ❓ Need help
Caddy Server	❓

Apache httpd Requirements

Configuration needed for Apache httpd.

Title	Description
mod_rewrite	Rewriting engine to rewrite requested URLs on the fly

Databases Requirements

Supported databases.

Title	Description
MariaDB	>= 10.1.8 with InnoDB support 💚
MySQL	>= 5.5.3 with InnoDB support 🔸
PostgreSQL	>= 9.1 ❓ Need help
SQL Server	>= 10.50.1600.1 ❓ Need help

Client Requirements

Find the technical requirements on the client side.

Supported Browsers	Version
Google Chrome	latest (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
Firefox	latest (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
Safari	latest (MacOS)
Edge	latest
Internet Explorer	>= 11