These are the minimum requirements or pre-requisites for Open Media Player.

## You

We're committed to making Open Media Player as easy to install as possible. You can hopefully get started with minimal experience using web servers, PHP, and the command line or terminal. Please help us improve the documentation and installation process. Note that if you you don't fancy installing a web server and PHP individually, [you can use distributions like XAMPP or MAMP](#xampp).

## Operating system

You'll need one of the following:

* Linux, Mac OS X or Windows (We run the Player on Redhat Linux 6, Mac OS X 10.9.5, and Windows 7 Enterprise).

## Web server

* Apache version 2.2 onwards, with `mod_rewrite`;
* Other servers – Nginx, IIS – may work, but we haven't tested these yet. (Please let us know!)

## PHP

* [PHP][] 5.3.29 onwards. (We currently run PHP 5.4.36 and 5.5.27)
* We will probably drop support for PHP 5.3 soon, as it is [no longer supported by the core PHP developers][no-php]. Please encourage your web-host to upgrade.
* PHP extensions:  cURL, SimpleXML (often enabled by default)

## <a name="xampp"></a>XAMPP, MAMP

If you do not fancy installing a web server and PHP individually, you can use distributions like XAMPP or MAMP.

* We currently use [XAMPP][] 3.2.1 and [MAMP][] 2.2 (Mac OS X & Windows only)

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Note, you do _NOT_ need a MySQL database.

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Onwards, to [installation →](../wiki/Install)


[PHP]: http://php.net/
[no-php]: http://php.net/supported-versions.php
[XAMPP]: https://www.apachefriends.org/ "Apache + MySQL + PHP + Perl"
[MAMP]: https://www.mamp.info/en/ "My Apache - MySQL - PHP"