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 5.5+
- Apache - The web server
- Version 2.2+, 2.4 recommended
- PHP - The server side programming language
The following PHP extensions are required:
- php-gd
- php-dev
- php-mysql
- php-mbstring
- php-zip
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