Compatibility of operating systems with Enterprise Server

This article lists the compatibility of operating systems with Enterprise Server.

Notes: The operating systems listed are valid for the Web server running Enterprise Server and File Transfer Server. To choose an operating system for the database, see Compatibility of databases with Enterprise Server. For all operating system flavors, it is recommended to use the 64-bit version to gain better performance. However, for Enterprise Server versions 9.x, 10.0.x and 10.1.x, the 32-bit flavors are supported as well. Many operating systems ship a PHP version which might not be compatible with Enterprise. Please check Compatibility of PHP with Enterprise Server to see if an update is required. Please also verify that any software that is installed by default by these operating systems such as PHP, Web browsers and so on is also compatible with Enterprise Server.

Linux

	Enterprise Server version
Operating System	9.8.x	10.0.x – 10.1.x	10.2.x or higher
RedHat Linux 6.x / CentOS 6.x	Yes	Yes	-
RedHat Linux 7.x / CentOS 7.x	Yes R	Yes R	Yes R
RedHat Linux 8.x / CentOS 8.x	-	-	-
OpenSUSE 12	Yes	Yes	-
OpenSUSE 13	Yes R	Yes R	Yes R

Legend: Yes = combination is supported. Yes ^R = recommended combination. - = combination of old and new software versions is not supported.

Older versions

Windows

	Enterprise Server version
Windows version	9.x	10.0.x – 10.1.x	10.2.x or higher
Windows Server 2008 SP2 1, 2	Yes	Yes	-
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 1, 2	Yes	Yes	-
Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2	Yes R	Yes R	Yes
Windows Server 2016	Yes	Yes3	Yes

Legend: Yes = combination is supported. Yes ^R = recommended combination. - = combination of old and new software versions is not supported.

¹ Windows 32-bit and 64-bit are both supported. Most recommended is 64-bit because of performance reasons. When using Windows 64-bit, also install SQL Driver 64-bit and IIS 64-bit. For VC9 compiled versions only, PHP and ionCube are available in 32-bit only but IIS 64-bit can run PHP in a 32-bit application pool. Because Enterprise Server runs on PHP it is running 32-bit, even when using a 64-bit version of Windows/IIS. For VC11 compiled versions (and newer), both 32-bits and 64-bits are supported for PHP and ionCube.

² Service Pack is required by SQL Driver 3.x for PHP.

³ This was tested with Enterprise Server 10.1.2 but is expected to be valid for any version of Enterprise Server 10.0 and 10.1.

When connecting to MS SQL Server

	Enterprise Server version
MSSQL version	9.8.x	10.0.x – 10.1.x	10.2.x or higher
ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server	Yes	Yes	Yes
ODBC Driver 13.1 for SQL Server	-	-	Yes
SQL Driver 3.2 for PHP (PHP 5.4.32 / 5.5.16 / 5.6.4 or higher)	Yes	Yes	-
SQL Driver 4.3 for PHP (PHP 7.0 / 7.1)	-	-	Yes

Legend: Yes = combination is supported. - = combination of old and new software versions is not supported.

Older versions

Mac OS X

Note: The MAMP package can be used for development and demo environments but it is not suitable for production purposes. See www.mamp.info.

	Enterprise Server version
Mac OS X version	9.8.x	10.0.x – 10.1.x	10.2.x or higher
OS X 10.9 (Mavericks Server)	Yes	Yes	D1
OS X 10.10 (Yosemite Server 4.0)	Yes R	Yes	D1
Mac OS X 10.11 (Server 5.0)	Yes	Yes	D1
MacOS 10.12 to 10.141	Yes	Yes R	D1
MacOS 10.15 (Catalina)	No	No	No

Legend: Yes = combination is supported. Yes ^R = recommended combination. - = combination of old and new software versions is not supported. D = Deprecated. tbd = to be determined

¹ Support for MacOS has been deprecated in Enterprise Server 10.2.0 and has been dropped in Enterprise Server 10.6.0. This also includes support for sips, but does not apply to InDesign Server. For new installations and upgrades we strongly recommend to move to Linux or MS Windows. However, Enterprise Server versions 10.2 - 10.5 can be used on MacOS and are fully supported.

Older versions

Document history

• 4 November 2019: Added information about compatibility with Linux CentOS/RHEL 8.
• 3 October 2019: Added information about MacOS 10.15 (Catalina).