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Last updated: 25. August 2025

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In order to use SobiPro on your server, some requirements must be met. Before installing or updating SobiPro, please check whether your server meets the requirements.

Some SobiPro applications may have their own specific requirements. They are displayed on the application page.

Minimum requirements

If the minimum requirements are not met, SobiPro will not work at all on your server.

SobiPro 2.6+:

Joomla! 4.3/4.4, Joomla 5.0/5.1
PHP 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

For SobiPro series 2.6:

Apache 2 webserver¹
HTML5, CSS3/4 and ECMAScript 2018 compatible browser
MySQL >= 5.7 and MariaDB >= 10.0.14²
MySQL Stored Procedures available ³
phar extension available (template settings, LESS compiler)⁴
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
Linux or macOS server operating system. SobiPro and its applications are not tested on Windows Systems. It may especially not fully work on systems which are not suitable for life sites (e.g. Bitnami) on Windows PCs.
Site encoding and database collation: utf-8/utf8 derived (charset: utf8mb4 / collate: utf8mb4_unicode_ci) ⁵

SobiPro will work, but if the following requirements are not met, restricted or disrupted functions may occur. The corresponding functions are given in brackets. These recommendations are always related to the latest SobiPro 2 version, but they also may be related to older versions.

PHP 8.2.14
at least MySQL 8.1 or MariaDB 11.1
Zip extension available (installation of applications)
Client URL Library installed and usable (also for SSL URLs)⁶ (repository, URL validation, crawler, SSL certificate, schema definitions, news)
SQLite supported⁷ (SobiPro's data accelerator)
SOAP extension available and usable (repository)
OpenSSL module available (repository)
Tidy HTML clean and repair utility available (automatic HTML error correction)
System program execution enabled⁸ (file type validation)
PHP Memory Limit >= 48 MB
PHP max. execution time >= 30 seconds

1) Nginx is not supported.

2) PostgreSQL is not supported.

3) 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.

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

5) Since sorting operations in SobiPro are performed by the database, it may be useful to change the database encoding for languages with special non-Latin letters from 'utf8mb4_general_ci' to an encoding more appropriate for your language. For example, to 'utf8mb4_polish_ci' for Polish language or to 'utf8mb4_roman_ci' for German or French.

6) Some providers seem to provide CURL 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.

7) SQLite is supported only via the PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension.

8) System Program Execution (exec) is a PHP function required by SobiPro for file type validation. It protects your system when uploading files (e.g. images). The function is used as a fallback if PHP’s Fileinfo MIME type detection is not active, before falling back further to checks based only on file extensions.
Since PHP’s Fileinfo MIME type detection is enabled by default, hosting providers would have to disable it manually (which most probably do not). You can verify yourself whether PHP’s Fileinfo MIME type detection is active in Joomla: System → System Information → PHP Settings → Fileinfo Available = Yes (Joomla 4/5).
If this is the case, you can safely ignore the warning.
If needed, ask your hosting provider or system administrator to remove exec from the disable_functions list. Please note that escapeshellarg also needs to be excluded from this list.

Minimum requirements

If the minimum requirements are not met, SobiPro will not work at all on your server.

SobiPro 2.5.1+:

Joomla! 3.10, Joomla 4.1/4.2/4.3/4.4, Joomla 5.0/5.1
PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2

SobiPro 2.4+, 2.5.0+:

Joomla! 3.10, Joomla 4.1/4.2/4.3, Joomla 5.0
PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2

SobiPro 2.2+, 2.3+:

Joomla! 3.10, Joomla 4.1/4.2/4.3
PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2

SobiPro 2.1+:

Joomla! 3.10, Joomla 4.1/4.2
PHP 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1

For SobiPro series 2.0 to 2.5:

Apache 2 webserver¹
HTML5, CSS3/4 and ECMAScript 2018 compatible browser
MySQL >= 5.7 and MariaDB >= 10.0.14²
MySQL Stored Procedures available ³
phar extension available (template settings, LESS compiler)⁴
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
Linux or macOS server operating system. SobiPro and its applications are not tested on Windows Systems. It may especially not fully work on systems which are not suitable for life sites (e.g. Bitnami) on Windows PCs.
Site encoding and database collation: utf-8/utf8 derived (charset: utf8mb4 / collate: utf8mb4_unicode_ci) ⁵

Recommended settings

PHP 8.2.14
at least MySQL 8.1 or MariaDB 11.1
Zip extension available (installation of applications)
Client URL Library installed and usable (also for SSL URLs)⁶ (repository, URL validation, crawler, SSL certificate, schema definitions, news)
SQLite supported⁷ (SobiPro's data accelerator)
SOAP extension available and usable (repository)
OpenSSL module available (repository)
Tidy HTML clean and repair utility available (automatic HTML error correction)
System program execution enabled (file type validation)
PHP Memory Limit >= 48 MB
PHP max. execution time >= 30 seconds

1) Nginx is not supported.

2) PostgreSQL is not supported.

3) 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.

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

5) Since sorting operations in SobiPro are performed by the database, it may be useful to change the database encoding for languages with special non-Latin letters from 'utf8mb4_general_ci' to an encoding more appropriate for your language. For example to 'utf8mb4_polish_ci' for Polish language or to 'utf8mb4_roman_ci' for German or French.

7) SQLite is supported only via the PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension.

Minimum requirements

If the minimum requirements are not met, SobiPro will not work at all on your server.

SobiPro 1.6+:

Joomla! 3.8 to 3.10
PHP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4

SobiPro 1.5+:

Joomla! 3.8 to 3.9
PHP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

SobiPro 1.4+:

Joomla! 3.6 to 3.9
PHP 5.6 and above, PHP 7.1, 7.2

SobiPro 1.3+:

Joomla! 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7
PHP 5.6 and above, PHP 7

SobiPro 1.2+:

Joomla! 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6
PHP 5.3.9 and above, PHP 7

SobiPro 1.1+:

Joomla! 2.5 or 3.3/3.4
PHP 5.3.9 and above

SobiPro 1.0+:

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

For all SobiPro 1 versions:

Apache 2 webserver¹
MySQL >= 5.5²
HTML5 and CSS3 compatible browser
phar extension available (template settings, LESS compiler, Sobi Framework)³
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
Linux or macOS server operating system. SobiPro and its applications are not tested on Windows Systems. It may especially not fully work on systems which are not suitable for life sites (e.g. Bitnami) on standard Windows OS.
Site encoding and database collation: utf-8/utf8 derived (charset: utf8 / collate: utf8_unicode_ci) ⁴

Recommended settings for the latest SobiPro 1 version

SobiPro will work, but if the following requirements are not met, restricted or disrupted functions may occur. The corresponding functions are given in brackets.

PHP 7.4.33⁵
MySQL 5.7+²
Zip extension available (installation of applications)
Client URL Library installed and usable (also for SSL URLs)⁶ (repository, URL validation, crawler, SSL certificate, schema definitions, news)
SQLite supported⁷ (SobiPro's data accelerator)
SOAP extension available and usable (repository)
OpenSSL module available (repository)
Tidy HTML clean and repair utility available (automatic HTML error correction)
System program execution enabled (file type validation)
PHP Memory Limit >= 48 MB
PHP max. execution time >= 30 seconds

1) Nginx is not supported.

2) MySQL 8, MariaDB >= 10.2 and PostgreSQL are not supported.

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

4) Since sorting operations in SobiPro are performed by the database, it may be useful to change the database encoding for languages with special non-Latin letters from 'utf8_general_ci' to an encoding more appropriate for your language. For example to 'utf8_polish_ci' for Polish language or to 'utf8_roman_ci' for German or French.

5) PHP 8 is not supported.

7) SQLite is supported only via the PHP Data Objects (PDO) extension.

Global settings

Joomla! FTP Layer disabled
PHP Register Globals disabled
PHP Safe Mode disabled (OFF)
A Joomla template that can display Joomla system messages. SobiPro relies on these messages to report certain errors and notifications. So if they are not displayed, it may prevent SobiPro from working properly.
File upload enabled

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Google Maps and OpenStreetMap + Leaflet support
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Configurable zoom level and start coordinates
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Information windows displayed on click or hover
Customisable information windows via XSL templates and CSS
Google Maps views: roadmap, satellite, terrain, and hybrid
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Responsive design with SSL support
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