Downloading the Community Free Edition of JTL-Shop

Please make sure that your web server meets the following system requirements:

• JTL-Wawi: At least version 1.0, for full UTF-8 support at least JTL-Wawi 1.6

• Operating system: Linux (Debian, Ubuntu etc.). Please note the information listed above.
• 64-bit Apache web server (PHP mode: FCGI or Apache Module) 2.2 or 2.4 with mod_rewrite module, .htaccess support. (The web server must allow for default rules to be overwritten and added.)
• Database: MySQL 5 version 5.7 or later or MariaDB version 10.1 up to and including 10.9.6; as of JTL-Shop 5.2.3 even up to and including 10.11 (LTS); as of JTL-Shop 5.1 also MySQL 8.0
• PHP version: JTL-Shop 5 requires at least PHP 8.1 from version 5.2. However, we recommend using PHP 8.2 from 5.2.3.

• Mail server: Accessible locally or via SMTP
• PHP modules:
• SimpleXML
• Imagick
• Curl
• Iconv
• MBString
• Tokenizer
• Intl
• PDO (MySQL)
• IonCube Loaders (http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php): JTL-Shop 5 is delivered with open source code and is ready for operation without IonCube Loader. However, IonCube Loader may be required for the operation of third-party plug-ins.
• PHP settings:
• PHP script execution time (max_execution_time) of at least 120 seconds
• PHP memory limit (memory_limit) of at least 128 MB
• Maximum PHP transfer size (FILE / upload_max_filesize) of at least 6 MB
• Maximum PHP transfer size (POST / post_max_filesize) of at least 8 MB
• allow_url_fopen enabled

Required webspace

How much web space is needed for how many items can only be determined theoretically by calculation. The decisive factors are not the items themselves, but mainly their images. Item images are stored in their original size on the webspace and additionally scaled in four different sizes for each shop language.

Thus, depending on the target image sizes and quality, one shop language results in a webspace 2-3 times larger than the original image file sizes.

• One shop language
• Average original size of 200 KB
• Think about the image sizes you want to make available to customers. If you want to provide full HD images, you should not save 4k images that require a lot of storage space.
• Item images that are stored in items in JTL-Wawi
• Make sure that the images are well compressed (permissible file formats for item images are .jpg/.jpeg and .png).
• In JTL-Shop, a setting specifies that the largest display option for item images matches that of JTL-Wawi.

Web-hosting-specific requirements:

In our experience, problems with servers running sunOS and the IonCube loader are likely! Before installing the shop, please enquire with your hosting provider which operating system is used on the server. We recommend using Linux web servers.

Information for Hosting customers of 1&1: Hosting customers of 1&1 need to carry out some additional steps after installing JTL-Shop to enable ionCube. Please see Running JTL-Shop on a 1&1 or Strato server for more information.

Information for Strato Managed Virtual Server customers: When installing JTL-Shop/IonCube, “PHP mode and accelerator” must be set to CGI. To use the SEO module, the mode must then be set to “Fast CGI + APC” again.