XF 1.5 1.5 System Requirements

[jamesder]

I have a Xenforo 1.5.20 installation running on a MAMP server. I'm going to be upgrading my PHP and MySQL versions on the server and want to make sure my 1.5.20 installation will still work. The system requirements file in the 1.5 docs links to the 2.0 requirements. Could someone point me in the right direction?

 

[Chris D]

I think you'll need to use PHP 7.2 or below (and greater than PHP 5.2) and you'll need to use MySQL 5.7 or below (or equivalent).

 

[ENF]

I'd stick with PHP 5.6 or newer at a minimum, although I believe XF 1.5.23 was the first version to have support with PHP 7.3.
For MySQL, I'd stick with MySQL 5.5 or newer.

 

[Chris D]

For MySQL, I'd stick with MySQL 5.5 or newer.

Can be anywhere from MySQL 5.0 I think for XF 1.x but actually I believe you'll hit issues with MySQL 8.0 unless you're using the latest 1.5 release.

 

[ENF]

Can be anywhere from MySQL 5.0 I think for XF 1.x but actually I believe you'll hit issues with MySQL 8.0 unless you're using the latest 1.5 release.

Ah yeah, I didn't think about that... I still see so many older MySQL versions out there still.

 

[Chris D]

Yeah it's kind of annoying. There are definitely features we could use in newer MySQL (particularly native JSON support) but the adoption is slow.

 

[jamesder]

Thanks. I’m trying to use the newest versions of PHP and MySQL that I can on 1.5.20

 

[Chris D]

I suppose I should also note the obligatory warning that as XF 1.5 is no longer supported, we wouldn't recommend using it at all and you should aim to upgrade as soon as possible. If you have to use XF 1.5 then you should use the latest version of that available which is 1.5.24.

The only supported version of XF is 2.1.x.

 

[jamesder]

I suppose I should also note the obligatory warning that as XF 1.5 is no longer supported, we wouldn't recommend using it at all and you should aim to upgrade as soon as possible. If you have to use XF 1.5 then you should use the latest version of that available which is 1.5.24.

The only supported version of XF is 2.1.x.

thanks Chris. maybe i'll use this as an opportunity to upgrade to 2

 

[Chris D]

Certainly useful to still get your local MAMP installation running - that might help you plan and test the upgrade. But, yes, strongly recommended at this point.

From January 2020, there won't be any security updates for XF 1.5 either.