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The Service Provider is written in fairly portable C++ with dependencies on a mixture of C and C++ libraries, and is in principle buildable on most Operating Systems, but we provide official support for only the platforms below at this time, which also correspond to the exact platforms for which we produce some form of official packaging.
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Building from source is possible (and somewhat easier than in the past) but this is still byeond beyond the capabilities of most and not encouraged unless you have a need to produce extensions to the software (or need the FastCGI modules, see below).
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We officially support the following Linux distributions (x86_64 only):
Red Hat Enterprise
and CentOS 6, 7, 8
We will be officially supporting the following Linux distributions for a period of time in 2020:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12SP4,12SP5
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7/8/9
CentOS 7
Rocky Linux 8/9
Amazon Linux 2
Amazon Linux 2023
The same platforms do have unofficial aarch64 packages for ARM distributions available. These packages are not officially supported but are believed to be suitable for testing.
The reason for this small set of options, aside from limiting our scope, is that these are the versions we explicitly provide packages for (in the form of RPMs built by the OpenSUSE build service under the oversight of the project team) , and are therefore the versions for which we can provide security updates.
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We also partially support the following Linux distributions through our support options for Consortium members:
Debian
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and OpenSUSE
In practice, we do not simply ignore bug reports or questions about these, and other, distributions since the majority are of general applicability, but there are cases where more esoteric bugs are in fact limited to a platform and that is something we take into consideration. We offer members a higher degree of tolerance for questions and issues requiring deeper investigation on these partially-supported platforms.
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We provide the FastCGI modules when the requisite libraries are available on the OS.
Mac OS
We maintain MacPorts of the SP and most of its dependencies and support the use of the SP when those ports are used. We have essentially no capability to test on non-current Mac OS releases so only the latest 10.X release at any given time is officially supported. We do not however recommend its use outside of development or testing scenarios.
Web Servers
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macOS
Support for macOS is now unofficial due to the effort required and the lack of interest. There is a macport for all the dependencies and the SP itself and we will help to maintain this on a voluntary basis for now and it is not officially supported.
Web Servers
The unofficial port is designed to be used with the Apache provided by macports.
We do not recommend the use of the old prefork MPM and strongly encourage the worker MPM. The prefork option will fail under load in a variety of cases, with some limited workarounds possible.