Compatibility and Requirements

Before you install Tideways make sure that your servers or development machines fullfill the requirements.

Supported PHP Versions

Tideways supports the following PHP versions: 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1

Both NTS (non-thread safe) and ZTS (Zend Thread Safety) builds of PHP are supported.

Permissions

During installation "root" access to the server is often required.

There are exceptions for our many partnering hosters that provide a managed version of Tideways.

Operating Systems

Tideways is only available for Linux operating systems.

Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD are not supported.

Processor Architectures

Tideways supports AMD64 (x64) and ARM64/AARCH64 processor architectures.

Web Servers

  • Apache 2 with mod_php

  • Webservers using PHP-FPM via FastCGI such as Nginx

Frameworks

The following frameworks are supported in Tideways

  • Symfony versions 2 - 6

  • Laravel 4 - 9

  • Wordpress

  • Shopware 5 and 6

  • Oxid 5 and 6

  • Magento 1 and 2

  • Spryker

  • Yii 2

  • Drupal 7 and 8

  • TYPO 3

  • Flow/Neos

  • Slim

  • Cake PHP 2 and 3

Install Tideways

Installation with different distributions and platforms are described in individual chapters:

Still need help? Email [email protected]