Chats v3:Dev Notepad:Requirements

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Contents 1 Minimum Requirements 2 Recommended 3 Known to run with 4 Other Links 5 Settings and Notes

Minimum Requirements

• Apache HTTP Server
  • mod_rewrite
  • mod_env
  • mod_access
• PHP
  • mbstring, for UTF-8 input/output
  • safe_mode off
  • PEAR::Date
  • PEAR::Image::Color
• PostgreSQL

Recommended

• eAccelerator, very highly recommended!
• SQL Relay
• Telana Peruser

Known to run with

• RH9 Linux, kernel v2.4.20-31.9
• Windows XP SP2
• Apache HTTP Server, v2.0.53
• PHP, v5.0.3, loaded as an Apache module.
• PostgreSQL, v8.0.1, database created with encoding Unicode.
• eAccelerator, v0.9.2a
• SQL Relay, v0.34

Other Links

• http://www.arnot.info/eaccelerator/ - eAccelerator binaries for Windows.

Settings and Notes

• Example Windows php.ini section for eAccelerator:

extension=eaccelerator_win_5.0.3.dll
eaccelerator.shm_size="24"
eaccelerator.cache_dir="D:/tmp"
eaccelerator.enable="1"
eaccelerator.optimizer="0"
eaccelerator.check_mtime="1"
eaccelerator.debug="0"
eaccelerator.filter=""
eaccelerator.shm_max="0"
eaccelerator.shm_ttl="600"
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period="600"
eaccelerator.compress="0"
eaccelerator.keys="shm"
eaccelerator.sessions="shm"
eaccelerator.content="shm"

• Apache's httpd.conf must have "AllowOverride All" for the folder v3 is installed in.
• The .htaccess has to be edited if you install anywhere other than http://localhost/chatv3/
• You have to edit _inc/config.php to put in the correct PostgreSQL credentials.
• The file pgsql.dump.tar.backup must be restored into a database. It will create a schema 'chatv3'. The database should be Unicode if possible.