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
>= 8.0.2 - 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
Recommended Hosts
We recommend using Digital Ocean to host most small to medium Statamic sites. Their servers are fast, inexpensive, and we use them ourselves. Full disclosure: that's an affiliate link but we wouldn't recommend them if it wasn't an excellent option.
We have an install guide on how to get Statamic running on a typical Digital Ocean droplet
We also maintain a user-contributed Github repo full of other host recommendations.
Development Environments
All of these requirements are satisfied by the Laravel Homestead virtual machine, which makes it a great local Laravel development environment. Virtual machines aren't for everybody though, so here are a couple of other options.
MacOS: Laravel Valet
Laravel Valet is a development environment for Mac minimalists. No Vagrant, No Apache, No Nginx, No need to manually edit hosts file. It simply maps all the subdirectories in a “web” directory (such as ~/Sites) to .test or .localhost domains.
You can even share your sites publicly using local tunnels. We use it ourselves and it’s brilliant.
Windows: WAMP
Laragon and WAMP are both good choice for those of the Windows persuasion. You may also want to checkout Laravel Sail, which works well with Statamic or the Valet for Windows port.
