Installing WAMP on Windows Server 2012 on AWS By gunnalagApril 19, 2014August 12, 2014Server, Web Technologies http://wordpress.org/about/requirements/ To run WordPress your host just needs a couple of things: PHP version 5.2.4 or greater MySQL version 5.0 or greater The requirements have changed as of WordPress 3.2. The minimum requirements for WordPress 3.1 are PHP 4.3 and MySQL 4.1.2. < p>