Hosting Requirements

Server software

  • Linux/Unix/Windows
  • Apache 2 or higher with:
    • mod_rewrite on
    • mod_security (strict configurations) off
  • PHP 5.5 or higher with:
    • cURL on
    • fopen on
    • register_globals off
    • safe_mode off
    • suPHP off
    • suApache off
    • suhosin off
  • PHP modules:
    • PDO
    • DOM
    • mbstring
    • zip
    • zlib
    • ftp
    • json
    • php_openssl
  • MySQL 5.0 or higher
  • GD Library 2 with FreeType support
  • Mail server (SendMail, Exim or other)
  • Cron

Hardware minimums

  • CPU: 1.4 Ghz
  • Memory: 1GB
  • Disk Space: 5 Gb (preferably SSD)

Attention!

Also please remember that not all server setups are created equal. It’s still possible to encounter problems with self-setup servers even if they meet all stated requirements. Possibilities are endless – too little memory, too little diskspace, non-standard file permission setup, etc.

For hosting that proved to work with Oxwall see our hosting partners.

If you plan to host Oxwall on your own, make sure your server meets our hosting requirements