Requirements

Before installing Shopware 6, take a quick look at the requirements below to check if your local environment is capable of running it.

Operating System

Shopware 6 is currently only supported on linux and macOS setups. Windows is only supported inside WSL 2.

Versions

You can use these commands to check your actual environment:

• php -v: Shows CLI PHP version
• php -m: Shows CLI PHP modules
• php -i | grep memory_limit: Shows your actual CLI PHP memory limit
• composer -v: Shows your actual composer version
• node -v: Shows your actual Node version
• npm -v: Shows your actual NPM version

PHP

• Tested on 7.4.3, 8.0 and 8.1
• memory_limit 512M minimum
• max_execution_time 30 seconds minimum
• Extensions:
  • ext-curl
  • ext-dom
  • ext-fileinfo
  • ext-gd
  • ext-iconv
  • ext-intl
  • ext-json
  • ext-libxml
  • ext-mbstring
  • ext-openssl
  • ext-pcre
  • ext-pdo
  • ext-pdo_mysql
  • ext-phar
  • ext-simplexml
  • ext-sodium
  • ext-xml
  • ext-zip
  • ext-zlib
• Composer 2.0 or higher

SQL

MySQL 5.7.21, and 8.0 are tested to work. Known problematic Versions:

• 8.0.20

MariaDB 10.3.22, 10.4 and 10.5 are all tested. Known problematic Versions:

• 10.3.29
• 10.4.19
• 10.5.10

JavaScript

• Node.js 16.00.0 or higher
• NPM 6.5.0 or higher

Webserver

To run Shopware in a development context, the Symfony CLI will work nicely.

Below you will find the default configuration using either Caddy, Nginx or Apache as a webserver.

Recommended stack

We recommend the following stack:

• Webserver: Caddy
• PHP: 8.1
• Node: 16
• Search: Opensearch 2.5.0
• Queue: Rabbitmq

Recommended PHP ini:

Performance Tweaks

Setup

Once the requirements are fulfilled, follow up with the Template guide to set up Shopware.