Knowledge Base

General installation requirements

ResourceSpace normally operates on the LAMP stack and requires the following core programs:

• MySQL compliant database
• MySQL version 5.6+
• MariaDB version 10.0.1+

• Web server
• Apache Version 2.4 or later recommended
• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0+

• PHP - The server side programming language
  • Supported versions: 
    • Up to ResourceSpace version 10.5:  7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
    • From ResourceSpace version 10.6:  8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
  • The following PHP extensions are required:
    • php-mysqli
    • php-curl
    • php-dom
    • php-gd
    • php-intl
    • php-mbstring
    • php-xml
    • php-zip
    • php-ldap
    • php-imap
    • php-json
    • php-apcu
    • php-cli
  • 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:

• Subversion - For fetching the ResourceSpace code. 
• 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 ImageMagick in creating previews of vector based images (e.g SVG)