System Requirements
At the base level, Magento will require the following software:
- Linux or another UNIX-compatible operating system (Windows is also supported, but see the Known Issues section below)
- Apache Web Server (1.x or 2.x)
- PHP 5.2.0 or newer, with the following extensions/addons:
- PDO/MySQL
- mcrypt
- hash
- simplexml
- GD
- DOM
- iconv
- MySQL 4.1.20 or newer
- A Sendmail-compatible Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) - Magento will connect directly to an SMTP server if you don't have an MTA
We also recommend the use of APC as a bytecode cache for performance improvements. You can find it in the PECL archives here: http://pecl.php.net/package/APC. Other bytecode cache systems are not supported at this time.
