Version: 2023.2

System Requirements

Server Requirements

For production, we highly recommend a *nix based system.

Also have a look at our official Docker images and the docker-compose files in our skeleton and demo application.

Webserver

Apache >= 2.4
- mod_rewrite
- .htaccess support (AllowOverride All)
Nginx

PHP >=8.1 <8.3

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
iconv
dom
simplexml
gd
exif
file_info
mbstring
zlib
zip
intl
opcache
curl
CLI SAPI (for Cron Jobs)
Composer 2 (added to $PATH - see also Additional Tools Installation)

Recommended or Optional Modules & Extensions

imagick (if not installed gd is used instead, but with less supported image types)
- LCMS delegate for Image Magick to prevent negative colors for CMYK images
phpredis (recommended cache backend adapter)
graphviz (for rendering workflow overview)
mysqli (PDO although is still required for parameter mappings)

Database Server

MariaDB >= 10.3
MySQL >= 8.0
Percona Server (supported versions see MySQL)
AWS Aurora (supported versions see MySQL)

Features

InnoDB / XtraDB storage engine
Support for InnoDB fulltext indexes

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

For installing our demo additionally Create routine and Alter routine are needed.

System Variables

[mysqld]
innodb_file_per_table = 1

[mariadb]
plugin_load_add = ha_archive # optional but recommended, starting from mariadb 10.1 archive format is no more activated by default (check and adapt for mysql or other database software)

Redis (optional but recommended for caching)

All versions > 3 are supported

Configuration

# select an appropriate value for your data
maxmemory 768mb
                   
# IMPORTANT! Other policies will cause random inconsistencies of your data!
maxmemory-policy volatile-lru   
save ""

Operating System

Please ensure you have installed all required packages to ensure proper locale support by PHP. On Debian based systems, you can use the following command to install all required packages: apt-get install locales-all (on some systems there may be a reboot required).

Additional Server Software

FFMPEG (>= 3)
Ghostscript (>= 9.16)
LibreOffice (>= 4.3)
Chromium/Chrome
xvfb
timeout (GNU core utils)
pdftotext (poppler utils)
inkscape
pngquant
optipng
jpegoptim
exiftool
Graphviz

Please visit Additional Tools Installation for additional information.

Browser Requirements

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

Google Chrome (Recommended)
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Edge
Apple Safari

Note: Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 won`t be supported from Pimcore 6.0.0 or higher. More details here.