Technical Requirements

Dolphin requires the following pre-requisites for your server:

• Linux/Unix? (Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, etc.) or Windows OS, Apache Web Server

• ​PHP 4.3.6 and higher (safe_mode must be Off, exec() must be allowed and allow_url_fopen also must be On) with mbstring, domxml and xsl extensions (they are required to run Orca forum and support UTF-8)

• ​MySQL 4.1.2 and higher

• ​GD library compiled with TrueType fonts (for photo processing) or ​ImageMagick as an alternative

• Sendmail or Postfix

• shell or another interface for setting ​Cron Jobs

• 20MB 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.

​HostForWeb is recommended hosting.

NB! This ​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 installation.