Server Requirements
PHP Requirements
webtrees 2.1.6 requires PHP 7.4 — 8.1.
webtrees 2.0.25 requires PHP 7.1 — 7.4.
webtrees 1.7.20 requires PHP 5.3 — 7.3. Note that this version of webtrees only supports MySQL, and is no longer supported.
Database Requirements
webtrees uses the Laravel Database component to provide support for these popular database engines.
- MySQL - version 5.7 or higher
- MariaDB - version 10.3 or higher
- PostgreSQL - version 9.6 or higher
- SQLite - version 3.8.8 or higher
- SQL-Server - 2017 or higher
MySQL/MariaDB is recommended for production servers. webtrees uses MySQL’s collation features to search and sort names correctly in different languages.
PostgreSQL and SQL-Server are largely untested, but should work.
SQLite is fine for small sites, but does not scale well with many concurrent users.
Web-server requirements
You will need approximately 100MB of disk space for webtrees files - plus whatever is needed for your media and GEDCOM files.
webtrees supports “pretty URLs”, using web-server rewrite rules. You should not enable this until after the setup is complete. Otherwise the setup wizard may not be able to detect the base URL.