Note for users: This article has practical information for configuring your server. Be sure to share this article with your system administrator or hosting provider support desk and ask if your hosting solution already covers all or what’s needed to set it up.
Notes about configuration details: As reference, we use the APT packages of the second-latest Ubuntu LTS release and its default configuration. We recommend using the second-latest Ubuntu LTS and build the stack from its default packages. Alternatively, install and configure a comparable setup.
HTTP Server
nginx 1.x or Apache 2.x (see below)
Valid TLS certificate installed
nginx
Default configuration using PHP-FPM or FastCGI as PHP Integration
Host configuration as prescribed by your Joomla or Wordpress site
Apache
Default configuration using PHP-FPM, FastCGI or mod_php as PHP Integration
Host configuration as prescribed by your Joomla or Wordpress site
Modules: mod_rewrite, mod_headers, mod_expires, mod_deflate, support for .htaccess files in docroot
PHP
Version: 5.6 - 7.3 (7.3 recommended)
Extensions:
php-cli
php-common
php-fpm
php-gd
php-json
php-bcmath
php-mbstring
php-mcrypt
php-mysql
php-opcache
php-readline
php-soap
php-xml
php-zip
php-curl
php-apcu
php-imagick
Non-standard PHP Extensions
ioncube Loader (minimum version 10.2) (configure the PHP-FPM and CLI SAPI). You find the installation guide on https://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php (see loader wizard for a guided installation process)
Helpful detail PHP.ini settings
Depends on many factors (trust your server administrator), Propose these settings to your server administrator:
max_execution_time: 60s minimum
post_max_size: 32MB minimum
upload_max_filesize: 32MB minimum
memory_limit: 512M minimum
max_input_time: 120s minimum
MySQL
MySQL 5.5 - 5.7
Barracuda and InnoDB Support