Requirements

TangoCMS requires PHP hosting that meets the following requirements in order for it to function correctly:

• PHP 5.2.0 or greater
• MySQL 4.1 or greater (recommended MySQL 5)
• Apache 2+ (1.3 is not supported), Lighttpd, IIS 6+, nginx are supported, others may work but have not been tested. Recommended to install mod_rewrite (or similar) for SEF, Search Engine Friendly, URLs.

PHP Extensions

Required

TangoCMS needs the following PHP extensions to function correctly. While this does look a lot, the majority are either enabled by default, or part of the PHP core.

• ctype
• date
• dom
• filter (as of TangoCMS 2.4.0)
• hash
• PDO with PDO_MYSQL
• pcre
• session
• SimpleXML (TangoCMS < 2.6.0)

Optional/Recommended

The following are optional extensions, however are recommended to improve the functionality of TangoCMS.

• FileInfo
• gd