Server requirements

The installer checks all of this on its first screen and shows you a green or red row for each item. You cannot proceed until every row is green, which means a misconfigured server shows up as a clear list rather than as a blank error page.

PHP#

PHP 8.3.0 or newer.

Required extensions#

Thirteen extensions must be loaded. Most shared hosts have all of them enabled by default; intl and zip are the two that occasionally need switching on in cPanel.

• bcmath
• ctype
• curl
• dom
• fileinfo
• gd
• intl
• mbstring
• openssl
• pdo
• tokenizer
• xml
• zip

Writable paths#

These must be writable by the user your web server runs as:

• .env
• bootstrap/cache
• storage/app
• storage/framework
• storage/logs

Database#

MySQL 8 or newer, with an empty database and a user that can create and alter tables. Create both in cPanel before you start the installer — the wizard connects to a database that already exists, it does not create one.

What you do not need#

The distributed archive already contains vendor/ and the compiled front-end assets in public/build/. Your host needs neither Composer nor Node.js nor npm, and there is no build step to run.

Recommended, not required#

• A cron entry for Laravel’s scheduler. Without it, expiry reminders, webhook retries, and log pruning never run. See Scheduled tasks.
• An SMTP account. Without one the panel logs emails instead of sending them, which means welcome emails and set-password links never reach your customers.
• HTTPS. Paddle will not deliver webhooks to a plain HTTP endpoint.