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

• Ability to run executable files (necessary for ffmpeg.exe)

• root SSH access (necessary for RMS installation)

• ​PHP 4.4.0/5.1.0 and higher (register_globals must be Off, safe_mode must be Off, exec() (executable files) must be allowed and allow_url_include should be Off) with mbstring, domxml and xslt extensions (they are required to run Orca forum and support UTF-8)

• the magic_quotes_gpc extension is also required in Dolphin 6.1.5 version

• If some security module is installed on the server (such as mod_security for Apache), it should be able to be disabled or set up for specific folders.

• Direct connection to boonex.com should be able to be established (i.e. connection without requiring proxy authorization).

• The server should be able to read any document located in public_html directory via http protocol.

• ​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 all the above requirements are met on your server then you are ready for installation.

If you want to add Dolphin to your cpanel automatic installation you should use ​these instructions. THese instructions are for Hosting providers and/or VPS/Dedicated server holders.