How to install SilverStripe

SilverStripe is a web application. This means that you will need to have a web server meeting SilverStripe’s requirements running.

The installation instructions below will take you through setting up an appropriate web server on your system. The installation instructions will set you up with a SilverStripe website very similar to our our demo site uses.

If you run Windows, we recommend that you use Microsoft's free Web Platform installer. If you are more technically inclined you can install using Apache on Windows or Manually install on IIS.

If you run Mac OS X, we recommend that you install MAMP first, and then install SilverStripe.

Instructions for installing on Mac OS X or Watch video

If you run Linux, we assume that you know how to get a web-server going.

Instructions for installing on an existing webserver

• Apache
• Lighttpd (lighty)
• Microsoft IIS
• Nginx
• Other

If you run into trouble, see common-problems or post to the SilverStripe forum.

If your installation does not allow PHP short tags i.e. you must have <%php, there is a bug in the current install package (2.3.1, 20 March 2009) that prevents Silverstripe installing. See this forum thread for details and how to fix it.

For advanced set-ups, see these pages. These describe our the core SilverStripe team manage their own projects:

• installation-into-subversion
• environment-management

You might also be interested in some of these related topic:

• download
• upgrading
• installing-modules
• server-requirements
• daily-builds
• common-problems