Requirements

The web installer checks all of this for you and tells you what’s missing.

Server

	Needed
PHP	8.4.27 or newer (8.4 or 8.5). Older 8.4 builds miss security fixes the installer insists on.
Database	MySQL 8.0 or newer.
Web server	Apache or Nginx, with HTTPS. The domain’s document root must point at backend/public.
Scheduler	A cron job running every minute (Server setup).
Queue worker	A long-running php artisan queue:work process. Shared hosting can use cron instead.

PHP extensions

Required: bcmath, ctype, curl, fileinfo, json, mbstring, openssl, pdo, pdo_mysql, tokenizer, xml, zip.

Recommended: gd and exif (image processing), intl (number and date formatting in every language).

Writable folders

The installer needs to write to these (usually 755 for folders, owned by the web server user):

• backend/storage/ and everything inside it
• backend/bootstrap/cache/
• backend/.env (created by the installer)

Accounts you’ll need

• A Firebase project, for sign-in and push notifications.
• Google Maps API key, for address search in the apps.
• A payment gateway account, if you take card payments.
• Apple and Google developer accounts, to publish the apps.

Next: install RapidMart.