# Installation

To install OpenSupports you need to support the following:

• PHP 7+
• MySQL 4.1+
• PDO Extension
• Apache 2.4+

1. The first thing you have to do is to download the zip file from http://www.opensupports.com/download/ which has the latest stable version of OpenSupports.
2. Unzip the package in a folder of your server, for example: yourwebsite.com/support
3. Go to yourwebsite.com/support (or the place where you extracted the file) and it should take you to the installation wizard.

The installation wizard will assist you to install and configure OpenSupports in your server.

You have to first select your language of preference for the installation and the system in general. It can be English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Turkish or Hindi.

In this step, the server requirements will be checked. If everything looks fine, you are able to proceed with the installation. The requirements are the mentioned above and some write permission for some files and folders.

Here you have to provide the information for your MySQL database. The MySQL server, generally just localhost, an user and password and the database name (it will try to create it automatically if it is left empty)

Select your preferences for the user system. Determine if you want users to register in order to create tickets or not. You can also disable registration if you want (users can be created by other ways).

Put the email, password and name of the master administrator. This account will have access to all the system configuration.

Once the installation is completed, you will be redirected to the admin login. Place go to Settings to change the rest of the configuration.

Remember To access to the admin panel you have to go to yourwebsite.com/support/admin and use your admin credentials.

If you want to do a manual installation, you can follow the next steps:

1. Make sure to have the server/ folder where you want to have the backend of the system.

2. Do a request to the path /system/init-database and pass the database values you need. You can avoid this if you want by creating a file called config.php with the database server information.

3. Do a request to the path /system/init-settings and pass the required parameters. This path will set the default values for the system.

4. Do a request to the path /system/init-admin and pass the values for the initial admin account.

<?php
  define('MYSQL_HOST', 'localhost');
  define('MYSQL_USER', 'root');
  define('MYSQL_PASSWORD', 'some_password');
  define('MYSQL_DATABASE', 'support');

If you want to avoid the use of PHP in the frontend side, or you have the backend located in another folder or server.

When you unpackage the system files without the server/ folder, make sure to replace the default file index.php with the special version of index.html and create a config.js file. So the frontend knows where does it have to make the api requests. Also make sure that you have the proper configuration for .htaccess if you're using apache to server the frontend.

There's many common issues with OpenSupports installation.

This is a very common error. It could be one of these reasons:

1. Apache must have "AllowOverride All" configuration enabled https://github.com/opensupports/opensupports/issues/432#issuecomment-458290276

2. IIS has a problem with paths in PHP functions. https://github.com/opensupports/opensupports/issues/135#issuecomment-358030214

3. Sometimes htaccess is not in the correct place https://github.com/opensupports/opensupports/issues/764#issuecomment-615162487

ini_set('display_errors', 1);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

Many issues have been reported related to SMTP and IMAP configuration. This is due the differences in email server providers and sometimes is not entirely clear. We're working on solving these issues.

In the meantime, you can watch the documentation related to it: