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 (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
• ​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
• 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.

​HostForWeb is recommended hosting.

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