Textpattern works on a web server running Apache or Nginx, PHP and MySQL.

The minimum requirements for Textpattern 4.8 to run are listed below. We recommend current, vendor-supported versions for overall performance and security reasons.

• PHP 5.5.0+ (version 8.0 or 8.1 recommended).
• MySQL 5.0.3+ (version 8.0 recommended).
• Apache 1.3+ (version 2.4+ with mod_rewrite recommended) or Nginx 1.13+ (version 1.21+ recommended).
• PHP extensions (included by default in many PHP installations):
  • mysqli
  • XML with SimpleXML
  • JSON
• Optional (recommended) PHP extensions:
  • intl
  • mbstring
  • zip
  • zlib
• A valid PHP date.timezone setting.
• The MySQL user requires at minimum the following grant privileges: SELECT, CREATE, ALTER, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, INDEX, LOCK TABLES. Some plugins may additionally require: CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, CREATE VIEW.
• A working mail transport agent (e.g. Sendmail, Postfix, etc).
• A Unix/Linux server OS with locale support is recommended.

Textpattern is reported to work well on a variety of other web servers, though they are unsupported.