You will need a PC or a UNIX-compatible server to work with the software.

Required Software:

• Nginx or Apache
• PHP (7.4 or 8.0) https://www.php.net/ PHP extensions required for X-Cart
  • ext-ctype
  • ext-curl
  • ext-date
  • ext-dom
  • ext-filter
  • ext-hash
  • ext-iconv
  • ext-json
  • ext-libxml
  • ext-mbstring
  • ext-openssl
  • ext-pcre
  • ext-pdo
  • ext-simplexml
  • ext-sockets
  • ext-sodium
  • ext-spl
  • ext-tokenizer
  • ext-xml
  • ext-xmlwriter
• Composer (2.1 or higher) https://getcomposer.org/
• MySQL https://www.mysql.com/ (5.7.7 or higher) or MariaDB https://mariadb.org/ (10.2.4or higher)
• OpenSSL https://www.openssl.org/
• memory_limit value must be 256M or higher

Recommended Apps:

• Git https://git-scm.com/
• Node (14 or higher) https://nodejs.org/en/
• Yarn (1.22.18 or higher) https://yarnpkg.com/ or NPM (6.14 or higher) https://www.npmjs.com/
• XDebug https://xdebug.org/ (for dev environment only)

Additional Requirements:

• If xdebug is enabled, xdebug.max_nesting_level must be set to 300
• If OPcache is enabled, the following settings must be applied

  opcache.use_cwd=1
  opcache.revalidate_path=1
  opcache.validate_timestamps=1
  opcache.revalidate_freq=0
  opcache.save_comments=1
  opcache.load_comments=1

  Any other cachers should not strip comments from the code, too.