| | 1 | == Technical Requirements == |
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| | 3 | Dolphin requires the following pre-requisites for your server: |
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| | 5 | * Linux/Unix (Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, etc.) or Windows OS, Apache Web Server |
| | 6 | * [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) |
| | 7 | * [htt://www.mysql.com/ MySQL 4.0.20] and higher |
| | 8 | * [http://www.boutell.com/gd/ GD library] compiled with TrueType fonts (for photo processing) or [http://imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick] as an alternative |
| | 9 | * Sendmail or Postfix |
| | 10 | * shell or another interface for setting [http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html Cron Jobs] |
| | 11 | * 7MB of disk space and 1MB of MySQL DB space for installation |
| | 12 | * 8MB of disk space and 50KB of MySQL DB space for an average user |
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| | 14 | Otherwise you will not be able to install and operate Dolphin properly. |
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| | 16 | [http://www.hostforweb.com HostForWeb] is recommended hosting. |
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| | 18 | If you all the above requirements are met on your server then you are ready for [wiki:DolInstallationES installation]. |
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