System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Not Supported

X-Cart 5.5.0.x: PHP 7.4 and higher / MySQL 5.7.7 or higher or MariaDB 10.2.4 or higher. Read more about X-Cart 5.5.x server requirements here.
​X-Cart v5.4.1.x and later: PHP 7.2 - 7.4 / MySQL 5.7.7 or higher. You can also use the MySQL-compatible database engine MariaDB (the minimum allowed MariaDB version is 10.2.4).

X-Cart v5.0.0.x-5.4.0.x: See PHP and MySQL/MariaDB Version Compatibility Chart for X-Cart.

PDO extension with MySQL driver

Phar extension (Required for the processes of updating/upgrading your X-Cart 5 store and addon installation. Phar version requirements may differ depending on the other components of your system. If you experience problems while running an update/upgrade or installing an add-on, try using Phar v.2.0.1 or later.)

mbstring extension is highly recommended (though X-Cart has a polyfill for it, the native extension will speed up string processing)

200-300Mb of disk space

libCURL module support (The minimum required CURL version is 7.39.0; version 7.43.0 is recommended.)

ini_set enabled

safe_mode disabled

file_uploads enabled

post_max_size set to 2M+ and larger than the upload_max_filesize value (critical for installation)

upload_max_filesize set to 2M or higher

magic_quotes_runtime disabled (for PHP versions earlier 5.4.x)

memory_limit set to 128M or higher (if you are using 64-bit processors in your server environment, the memory_limit value must be 256M or higher)

GDLib 2.0 or ImageMagick (recommended for proper image resizing routines)

PHP time limit properly set according to your server config

mod_rewrite-like components to enable proper work of SEO-friendly URLs

if xdebug is enabled, xdebug.max_nesting_level must be set to 300

if OPcache is enabled, the following settings must be applied:

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

Suhosin PHP extension might interfere with the proper work of X-Cart 5, so you should disable it.

LiteSpeed