

For more information, visit the XAMPP homepage XAMPP (Multi-platform) - Not for live sites.MAMP (Apple OS) - For more information, visit the MAMP homepage.WAMP (Windows) - For more information, visit the WampServer homepage.LAMP (Linux) - Most Linux distributions come with a pre-configured LAMP server.

If installing on a local computer, there are a number of packages that will help you get set up quicker than individual installations: This is the minimum version which is guaranteed to work, older versions may work but are not supported. Download for IIS7.įor further assistance using Microsoft IIS, visit the Joomla! IIS forum. For information about using ISAPI, click here. Microsoft URL Rewrite Module - Required for SEO URLs only.For Microsoft IIS (depending on your setup) you may need the following: Support for Microsoft SQL Server was added for the 2.5 release 1.6 and 1.7 do not have this support. Note that the OpenID library is not compatible with PHP 5.3. Joomla! versions 1.5.15 and later are compatible with PHP 5.3.

Zend Optimizer 2.5.10 for PHP 4.4 also has serious bugs and you should ask your host to upgrade to a newer version. These releases have known bugs that will interfere with installation. In order to use SEO URLs, you will need to have the Apache mod_rewrite extension installed. As of Joomla! 3.5, support for MySQL's `utf8mb4` character set is added and used by default by servers which support it. Joomla! versions 3.5 and later are compatible with PHP 7. At 3.3, the minimum is raised to PHP 5.3.10. PHP 5.3.1 is required for versions 3.0 through 3.2.
