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Maybe - History of server environments #158

Closed javiercasares closed 10 months ago

javiercasares commented 1 year ago

From https://codex.wordpress.org/Template:Server_requirements

Should we have a list of historical Server environments in a subsection at the Handbook?

     WordPress server requirements for Version 5.2+:
        PHP version 5.6.20 or greater, PHP 7 is highly recommended
        MySQL version 5.0.15 or greater or any version of MariaDB
        (Optional) (Required for Multisite) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)

    WordPress server requirements for Version 3.2+:
        PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
        MySQL version 5.0.15 or greater or any version of MariaDB
        (Optional) (Required for Multisite) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)

    WordPress server requirements for Version 2.9, 3.0, 3.1:
        PHP version 4.3 or greater
        MySQL version 4.1.2 or greater
        (Optional) (Required for Multisite) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)

    WordPress server requirements for Version 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8:
        PHP version 4.3 or greater
        MySQL version 4.0 or greater
        (Optional) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)

    WordPress server requirements for Version 2.1, 2.2, 2.3:
        PHP version 4.2 or greater
        MySQL version 4.0 or greater
        (Optional) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)

    WordPress server requirements for Version 2.0:
        PHP version 4.2 or greater
        MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater
        (Optional) Apache mod_rewrite module (for clean URIs known as Permalinks)
dali-rajab commented 1 year ago

Yes, I think we should have an exhaustive list of requirements because many sites are still running on very old (and deprecated) versions.