2.2.2. Server Software Requirements

⁠2.2.2. Server Software Requirements

All of the required software is free for commercial and non-commercial use (open source). Please refer to the table in Section 2.2.2.1, “Versions compatibility table” for minimum and recommended versions.

Operating System
MantisBT runs on Windows, MacOS, OS/2, Linux, Solaris, the BSDs, and just about anything that supports the required server software.
Web Server
MantisBT is mainly tested with Microsoft IIS and Apache. However, it is expected to work with any recent web server software.
File Extensions: MantisBT uses only .php files. If your webserver is configured for other extensions (e.g. .PHP3, .PHTML) then you will have to request the administrator to add support for .PHP files. This should be a trivial modification. Further details can be found in the PHP documentation
PHP
The web server must support PHP. It can be installed as CGI or any other integration technology.
PHP extensions
MantisBT is designed to work in as many environments as possible. Hence the required extensions are minimal and many of them are optional affecting only one feature.
Mandatory extensions
The extension for the RDBMS being used ( mysql/mysqli, pgsql, oci8, sqlsrv, ibm-db2 )
mbstring - Required for Unicode (UTF-8) support.
Optional extensions
Curl - required for the Twitter integration feature
GD - required for the captcha and graphs features
Fileinfo - Guesses the MIME type of attachments
Without this extension, file attachment previews and downloads may not work correctly as MantisBT won't be able to send the Content-Type header to a browser requesting an attachment.
This extension is included by default from PHP version 5.3.x and above.
Database
MantisBT requires a database to store its data. The supported RDBMS are:
- MySQL (or one of its forks, e.g. MariaDB)
- PostgreSQL
Experimental support is also available for
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
- DB2 (deprecated). Since none of the MantisBT core developers have access to this platform, support for it is very limited and likely to be removed in the future.
Experimental support means that manual intervention by a skilled Database Administrator may be required to complete the installation, and/or that there may be known issues or limitations when using the software. Please refer to our Issue tracker, filtering on categories db mssql, db db2 and db oracle to find out more about those.
Note
Please note that the MantisBT development team mainly works with MySQL, so testing for other drivers is not as extensive as we mainly rely on community contributions to improve support and fix issues with other RDBMS.
We therefore recommend MySQL to store your database.

⁠2.2.2.1. Versions compatibility table

Category	Package	Minimum Version	Recommended	Comments
RDBMS	MySQL / MariaDB	5.0.8	5.5.x or above	PHP extension: mysqli (recommended) or mysql
	PostgreSQL	7.0	9.x	PHP extension: pgsql
	IBM DB2			PHP extension: ibm-db2
	MS SQL Server	2005	2005 or above	PHP extension: sqlsrv
	Oracle	8i	11gR2	PHP extension: oci8
Web Server	Apache	2.2.x	2.4.x
	lighttpd	1.4.x	1.4.x
	nginx	1.10.x	1.10.x
	IIS	6.0	7.x
PHP	PHP	5.3.2	5.5.x or above	See above for PHP extensions

Warning

Running MantisBT with versions of the software components lower than the minimum requirements listed above is not supported.