Installation¶ CakePHP has a few system requirements: HTTP Server. For example: Apache. Having mod_rewrite is preferred, but by no means required. You can also use nginx, or Microsoft IIS if you prefer. Minimum PHP 5.6 (7.4 supported). mbstring PHP extension intl PHP extension simplexml PHP extension PDO PHP extension Note In XAMPP, intl extension is included but you have to uncomment extension=php