== Technical Requirements ==

Dolphin reeequires the following pre-requisites for your server:

	* Linux/Unix (Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, etc.) or Windows OS, Apache Web Server
	* [http://www.php.net/ PHP 4.3.6] (safe_mode must be off) with DOMXML and XSL extensions and higher (required to run Orca forum)
	* [htt://www.mysql.com/ MySQL 4.0.20] and higher
	* [http://www.boutell.com/gd/ GD library] compiled with TrueType fonts (for photo processing) or [http://imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick] as an alternative
	* Sendmail or Postfix
	* shell or another interface for setting [http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html Cron Jobs]
	* 7MB of disk space and 1MB of MySQL DB space for installation
	* 8MB of disk space and 50KB of MySQL DB space for an average user

Otherwise you will not be able to install and operate Dolphin properly.

[http://www.hostforweb.com HostForWeb] is recommended hosting.

NB! This [http://www.boonex.org/2007/09/03/dolphin-technical-requirements/ post on the Boonex blog] implies that root access and a dedicated or virtual server is required for hosting.

If you all the above requirements are met on your server then you are ready for [DolInstallation installation].