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--- requirements [2017-07-19 21:12] – [2. PHP version 5.6 or later] 88.185.225.67
+++ requirements [2024-02-11 18:53] (current) – andi
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 ====== DokuWiki System Requirements ======
-To run your own copy of [[DokuWiki]] you will need the following:
+To run your own copy of [[DokuWiki]] you will need a web server and PHP. You can either run this software yourself or use a [[install:hosted|hosting provider]].
-==== 1. Webserver supporting PHP====
+===== Web Server =====
-DokuWiki will run on any web server, that supports [[http://php.net/|PHP]]. Most users use [[http://httpd.apache.org/|Apache]] but many others including IIS, litespeed, lighttpd, nginx and Abyss are known to work.
+DokuWiki will run on any web server, that supports [[http://php.net/|PHP]].
-==== 2. PHP version 5.6 or later ====
+Most users use [[http://httpd.apache.org/|Apache]] or [[https://nginx.org/en/|nginx]], but many others including [[https://www.iis.net|IIS]], [[https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server|litespeed]], [[https://www.lighttpd.net|lighttpd]], [[https://man.openbsd.org/httpd|OpenBSD httpd]], [[https://caddyserver.com/|Caddy]] and [[https://aprelium.com/abyssws/|Abyss]] are known to work.
-**PHP needs to be at least Version 5.6** but newer versions are highly recommended.
+===== PHP ====
-For resizing [[:images]] either the [[phpfn>ref.image|PHP GD extension]] or [[http://www.imagemagick.org/|Image Magick]] should be installed.
+DokuWiki is written in the PHP scripting language and thus needs a compatible PHP interpreter.
-DokuWiki should work in PHP's [[phpfn>features.safe-mode|Safe Mode]], but depending on your hosting configuration you may need to use the [[config:safemodehack]] option.
+The current stable release requires PHP in version 7.4 or higher.
-The pcre library in PHP needs to be compiled with UTF-8 support. You can test this by executing ''pcretest -C'' and looking for "UTF-8 support" (or "UTF-8 and UTF-16 support") and "Unicode properties support".((If UTF-8 support is missing, snippets in the search results will be missing and when you follow links in the search results the pages will be empty.))
+PHP versions up to and including 7.4 have reached [[https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php|End of Life]]. Thus PHP 8 is recommended.
-**PHP 7.0** installation (on Ubuntu 16.04 or debian 9) need the php-xml package installed. (Fixes error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function utf8_decode() )
+Please refer to our page on [[install:php|recommended PHP settings]] for what extensions you should enable and recommended PHP configuration options.
-==== 3. A recent browser ====
-Any modern browser should work, but check our [[browser|browser recommendations]].
 ===== See also =====
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   * [[install|Installing DokuWiki]]
   * [[install:php|Recommended PHP settings]]
+  * [[browser|Browser Recommendations]]