General installation requirements
ResourceSpace normally operates on the LAMP stack and requires the following core programs:
- MySQL or MariaDB - The database
- MySQL version 5.6+
- MariaDB version 10.0.1+
- Apache - The web server
- Version 2.4 or later recommended
- PHP - The server side programming language
- Supported versions: 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
- The following PHP extensions are required:
- php-gd
- php-dev
- php-mysql
- php-mbstring
- php-zip
- php-xml
- php-ldap
- php-intl
- php-curl
- The php.ini file should be configured as described on this page.
In addition to the core programs the following applications are also required, for which the latest version is recommended:
- ImageMagick - For creating previews of images
- FFmpeg - For creating previews of video and audio files
- Ghostscript - For creating previews of PDF files
- ExifTool - For reading and writing Exif data from files
- Inkscape - For assisting in creating previews of vector based images