Prerequisites

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Cachet Prerequisites

You’ll need at least the following installed on your server:

• PHP 7.3, you’ll also need ext-gd, ext-simplexml, mcrypt and ext-xml installed.
• Composer and ext-mbstring,ext-tokenizer
• APC or Redis for caching.
• A database driver for your DB, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.
• Git

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SQLite

Whilst we support SQLite, we advise not using it for status pages with a high amount of traffic.

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MySQL Timezone Info

Ensure your MySQL database has been updated with the correct timezone information. This will ensure that metrics are shown correctly: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/time-zone-support.html

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Developer Prerequisites

If you’re looking to contribute to Cachet you may need some extra dependencies; depending on what you’re looking for.

Our CSS is compiled from SCSS, so to compile this you’ll need the following:

• Node.js
• NPM
• Bower
• Gulp