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: 7.2.5+, 8.0
- The following PHP extensions are required:
- php-apcu
- php-curl
- php-dom
- php-gd
- php-intl
- php-mbstring
- php-mysqli
- php-xml
- php-zip
- 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 ImageMagick in creating previews of vector based images (e.g SVG)