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Requirements for SobiPro and its applications. Some applications may have their own specific requirements. They are shown on the application's page.
In order to use SobiPro on your server there are some requirements which have to be met. Before you install or update SobiPro, please check if your server meets the requirements.

Minimum requirements

In case these requirements are not met, SobiPro won't work at all.

SobiPro 2.2+:

• Joomla! 3.10, Joomla 4.1/4.2/4.3
• HTML5, CSS3/4 and ECMAScript 2018 compatible browser
• PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2
• Phar extension available (Template Settings, LESS compiler)⁵

SobiPro 2.1+:

• Joomla! 3.10, Joomla 4.1/4.2
• HTML5, CSS3/4 and ECMAScript 2018 compatible browser
• PHP 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1
• Phar extension available (Template Settings, LESS compiler)⁵

SobiPro 2.0+:

• Joomla! 3.10, Joomla 4.0/4.1
• HTML5, CSS3/4 and ECMAScript 2018 compatible browser
• PHP 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0²
• Phar extension available (Template Settings, LESS compiler)⁵

SobiPro 1.6+:

• Joomla! 3.8 - 3.10
• HTML5 and CSS3 compatible browser
• PHP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
• Phar extension available (Template Settings, LESS compiler)⁵

SobiPro 1.5+:

• Joomla! 3.8 - 3.9
• HTML5 and CSS3 compatible browser
• PHP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
• Phar extension available (Template Settings, LESS compiler)⁵

SobiPro 1.4+:

• Joomla! 3.6 - 3.9
• HTML5 and CSS3 compatible browser
• PHP 5.6 and above, PHP 7.1, 7.2
• Phar extension available (Template Settings, LESS compiler, Sobi Framework)⁵

SobiPro 1.3+:

• Joomla! 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7
• HTML5 and CSS3 compatible browser
• PHP 5.6 and above, PHP 7
• Phar extension available (Template Settings, LESS compiler, Sobi Framework)⁵

SobiPro 1.2+:

• Joomla! 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6
• HTML5 and CSS3 compatible browser
• PHP 5.3.9 and above, PHP 7

SobiPro 1.1+:

• Joomla! 2.5 or 3.3/3.4
• HTML5 and CSS3 compatible browser
• PHP 5.3.9 and above

SobiPro 1.0+:

• Joomla! 1.5 (at least 1.5.20) or 2.5
• PHP 5.2

all SobiPro versions:

• Webserver: Apache 2.x³
• MySQL >= 5.5¹
• PHP Safe Mode disabled (OFF)
• Document Object Model library installed
• XSL extension installed and enabled
• XPath support available
• Standard PHP Library available
• PHP Filter Functions available
• Reflection API available
• Regular Expressions (Perl-Compatible) support available
• GD library installed
• JavaScript Object Notation support available
• ini_set function enabled
• parse_ini_file function enabled
• PHP Memory Limit >= 32 MB
• PHP max. execution time > 20 seconds
• Site encoding and database collation: utf-8/utf8 derived (charset: utf8mb4 / collate: utf8mb4_unicode_ci) ⁸

Highly recommended settings

In case these requirements are not met, some functionality may be limited or disturbed.

• Webserver: Apache 2.x
• PHP 7.4, PHP 8.0 (SobiPro 2 only)
• MySQL 5.7+
• MySQL Stored Procedures available ⁶
• Zip extension available (installation of applications)
• Client URL Library installed and usable (also for SSL URLs)⁷ (Repository, URL Validation, Crawler, Certificate, Schema definition, News)
• SQLite supported⁴ (Data Accelerator to speed up SobiPro)
• SOAP extension available and usable⁷ (Repository)
• OpenSSL module available (Repository)
• Tidy HTML clean and repair utility available (automatic HTML error correction)
• System program execution enabled
• PHP Memory Limit >= 48 MB
• PHP max. execution time >= 30 seconds
• File upload enabled

Additional recommended settings

• Joomla! FTP Layer disabled
• PHP Register Globals disabled
• A Joomla! template able to display Joomla! System Messages. SobiPro relies on these messages when reporting certain errors and notifications, so not being able to see them might interfere in SobiPro's correct operation.

1) MySQL 6 and MySQL 8 are not supported (yet).

2) PHP 8.1 is not supported.

3) Nginx is not supported at the moment.

4) SQLite can be supported directly via the SQLite extension or through the PHP Data Objects extension.

5) If you have Suhosin installed, make sure that Phar support is enabled in Suhosin.

6) Stored Procedures help in speeding up the site. Make sure to use MySQLi database driver, as the PDO database driver does not support Stored Procedures. SobiPro 2.x only.

7) Some providers seem to provide this functionality within the PHP configuration, but at the same time outgoing connections are blocked on the firewall or do not allow CURL for SSL URLs.
Please ensure that this functionality is enabled and also that it is indeed possible to use it.

8) Joomla! 1.5 and 2.5/3.x in the default installation always use utf-8 encoding and database collation. It is not recommended changing this setting to other than utf-encodings. However, it may be sometimes useful to change the database collation from "utf8mb4_general_ci" to a more appropriate setting for your language. For example to "utf8mb4_polish_ci" for Polish language or to "utf8mb4_roman_ci" for German or French.
It is especially useful for languages with special non-Latin letters as sorting operations in SobiPro are done by the database.