Integrations

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: 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2
    • 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)