What Your Hosting Provider Needs to Have to Host a Joomla Website

If you are considering a new Joomla website or converting your old website into a Joomla website, start with finding out whether your current hosting provider supports Joomla properly. Some hosting companies say that they do, but in reality there maybe requrements missing or they implement a work-around for some of the requrements, which may cause problems.

Here is what your hosting company needs to have to support Joomla properly:

1. PHP scripting available (php version 5 minimum)
2. Access to MySQL database
3. Hosted on a Linux Operating System required to enable mod_rewrite (for SEF)
4. Support of ionCube script and GD Library

Joomla Website Porting Requirements

1. Access to CPanel or similar web based dashboard which allows:
2. File management access
3. File transfer (FTP)
4. Database access, creation and management

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