Tuesday, December 15, 2009

System Requirements for running Magento

In order to run magento open source e-commerce software you need the following server requirements.

1)Operating System: Linux servers are only supported servers for magento software.

2)Web Servers: Apache 1.3.x or Apache 2.x or higher version of Apache are only supported versions of web servers for magento.

3)Development Language: Magento only supports PHP and version of PHP must be at least 5.2.0 or above.

4)Database: Mysql is only database language that is supported for magento and version must be 4.1.20 or above.

So your hosting server must support these specification. Before you hosting company check out their specifications. Also you need to enable following extensions.

- curl,
- dom,
- gd,
- hash,
- iconv,
- mcrypt,
- pcre,
- pdo,
- pdo_mysql,
- simplexml.

You can also check your hosting server requirements by following below steps.

1) Download magento-check.zip from http://www.magentocommerce.com/_media/magento-check.zip.

2) After unzipping the file and upload the php file to your Magento directory on the server.

3) In your browser navigate to this page. http://......../magento-check.php
It will say which requirements you are missing.

Related Documents
http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/12/magento-installation-does-not-proceed.html

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