Requirements

Supported operating systems

Recommended targets:

The command examples in this documentation target Ubuntu.

Required software

Southactyl needs:

• PHP 8.2 or 8.3
• MySQL 8+ or MariaDB 10.2+
• Redis
• Composer v2
• Web server:
  • NGINX
  • Apache
  • Caddy
• curl
• tar
• unzip
• git

PHP extensions

Install these PHP extensions:

• cli
• openssl
• gd
• mysql
• pdo
• mbstring
• tokenizer
• bcmath
• xml / dom
• curl
• zip
• fpm

Recommended production assumptions

Use:

• HTTPS only
• Redis for cache, sessions, and queue
• A local database bound to 127.0.0.1
• A dedicated database user
• A backed-up .env file
• A backed-up APP_KEY

Losing APP_KEY is not a small mistake. Encrypted data such as API keys may become unrecoverable.