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Requirements

Statamic is a modern PHP application built as a Laravel package, which carries with it the same server requirements as Laravel itself. To manipulate images (resize, crop, etc), you will also need the GD Library or ImageMagick installed on your server.

Server requirements#

To run Statamic you'll need a server meeting the following requirements. These are standard defaults (at minimum) for most modern hosting platforms.

  • PHP 8.3 or above
  • BCMath PHP Extension
  • Ctype PHP Extension
  • Exif PHP Extension
  • JSON PHP Extension
  • Mbstring PHP Extension
  • OpenSSL PHP Extension
  • PDO PHP Extension
  • Tokenizer PHP Extension
  • XML PHP Extension
  • GD Library or ImageMagick
  • Composer

Development environments#

Depending on your operating system, we recommend the following development environments:

macOS and Windows: Laravel Herd#

Laravel Herd is a blazing fast, native development environment for macOS and Windows. Herd includes php, composer and npm - almost everything you need to setup Statamic locally.

We've written a guide on installing Herd and setting up your Statamic site.

Linux#

To develop locally with Statamic on Linux, you'll need to install php, composer and npm.

If you're using Ubuntu (or another variant of Debian), you may find our Ubuntu guide helpful.

Statamic runs on any host that meets the requirements above. See our recommended hosts page for the host we recommend, along with a user-curated list of others that do (and don't) play well with Statamic.