SocialEngine is designed to be installed on a web server with the following basic requirements. Please send these requirements to your host if you are unsure how to set up the server or to check that it meets the requirements.
Recommended: Linux
Recommended: Apache (VPS or Dedicated) Minimum: VPS
Recommended: 7.4 or 8.0 Minimum: 7.3
Recommended: 5.7.34 or newer Minimum: 5.7
Required
mod_rewrite (removes index.php, for SEO-friendlier URLs)
Disable mod_security/mod_security2
Recommended
crontab
Memcached (speed boost)
Required
GD2
cURL
iconv
IntlChar (required for Unicode characters support for mobile apps)
Imagick (ImageMagick) required for gif image support and mobile device image rotation
MySQLi
Safe mode must be OFF
Register Globals must be OFF
Magic Quotes must be OFF
Disable open_basedir
Memory limit: 32M+
Sendmail
OpenSSL ENABLED
PHP settings for upload_max_filesize at 16 and post_max_size at 16
Recommended
dom
For VFS (Virtual File Storage), enable allow_url_fopen
Optional
BC Math (speed boost)
JSON (speed boost)
mbstring (required for non-English support)
Required
MySQL 5.7.34 or newer
1 available database
InnoDB table support
MySQLi
Recommended
MySQL 5.7.34 or newer
The following are not supported yet.
Nginx
MariaDB
FastCGI
PHP 8.1 or above is not supported yet.
Some plugins have their own requirements. Please configure your server per the plugins you will be using.
Chat Plugin - VPS or dedicated server
Video Plugin- FFmpeg (for encoding video) - without FFmpeg, users can still post YouTube and Vimeo videos. Your host can help with FFmpeg setup.
If hosting with AWS, do not enable AWS WAF as it interferes with sessions and login.
If using CloudFront, it can only be used for media files or it will interfere with sessions and login.
SocialEngine is accessible through modern web-browsers. Since browsers update their versions at a fast pace, our support is for the latest 2 releases of the following browsers. Browsers not on the list can still work fine but are not officially supported.
Mozilla
Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Safari
Supported Devices: 20,744 (Android devices)
Android Version: Above Android KitKat (version 5.0.0 above)
Supported Devices: above iPhone X
Need help with this stuff?
Contact us with any questions you have about these requirements, we'll be happy to help! Most modern hosting providers are compatible with SocialEngine but if in doubt you can contact them directly and refer them to this page.
Need a web hosting provider too?
Picking the right host is important, especially if you have plans for your network to grow large! We've had great experiences working with BryZar (and so have our clients) and recommend checking them out for SocialEngine-powered hosting.