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PrestaShop can work with PHP 5.1 or later, but that versions inferior to 5.2 have bugs that might prevent some functionalities to work well (such as invalid date timezone).
Also, PrestaShop can also work with IIS Web server 6.0 or later, and nginx 1.0 or later.
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Oftentimes, dedicated or shared servers have both PHP4 and PHP5 available, but only PHP4 is available activated by default.
To install PrestaShop, PHP 5 must be activated. If you attempt to run PrestaShop using PHP 4 or older, you will receive numerous errors, including this very common message:
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