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, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 (last updated: October 2024)

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 and MacOS operating systems.

Since version 5.8.0 of the Tideways PHP extension when using glibc, version 2.17 is required. When using musl we require the latest stable minor release (1.2)

Windows or 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

  • PHP-CGI

Frameworks

The following frameworks are supported in Tideways (last updated: April 2023)

  • Symfony versions 2 - 7

  • Laravel 4 - 10

  • 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, 3 and 4

  • Laminas

Install Tideways

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

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