System requirements for Magento 2

Before moving forward with the installation, we should review the system requirements for Magento 2 to ensure that the environment is correct for Magento to run properly.

The following are the system requirements for Magento 2:

• Operating System:

  • Linux

• Web servers:

  • Apache 2.2 or 2.4

  • nginx 1.8

• Database:

  • MySQL 5.6 or

  • MySQL 5.7 (Magento 2.1.2 or above) or

  • MariaDB or

  • Percona

• PHP:

  • PHP 5.6 and later. PHP 7.0.2, 7.0.4, 7.0.6-7.0.x (Magento 2.1.2 and later)

  • PHP 7.0.2, 7.0.6-7.0.x (all Magento 2.1.x versions)

  • PHP 5.6.x (Magento 2.1.0)

• Required PHP extensions:

  • BC Math

  • curl

  • GD, ImageMagick 6.3.7 (or later), or both

  • intl

  • mbstring

  • Mcrypt

  • Mhash

  • OpenSSL

  • PDO/MySQL

  • SimpleXML

  • OPCache

  • SOAP

  • xml

  • XSL

  • Zip

  • JSON (PHP 7 only)

  • iconv (PHP 7 only)

• PHP Dependency Manager:

  • Composer

• SSL:

  • Valid security certificate (required for HTTPS)

  • Transport Layer Security (TLS) requirement

• Mail Server:

  • Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) or SMTP server

• Optional:

  • Redis 3.0

  • Varnish 3.5 or latest stable 4.x version

  • Memcached

  • Xdebug

  • PHPUnit...