Installation - Requirements

Introduction

Before installing DutchPIPE, please read the Introduction page.

The installation manual pages list some possible platforms and configurations, but obviously not all of them. DutchPIPE is platform independent software, and you should be able to install it on any computer or server that runs a web server, PHP 5 and a database (a number of databases are supported).

Skill Requirements

1. PHP 5

   Knowledge of PHP 5 and in particular PHP 5 objects.

2. Javascript/AJAX

   If you like more magic to happen than the current library provides, Javascript/AJAX knowledge is required.

Software Requirements

1. A *NIX or Windows platform

   DutchPIPE was developed and tested on FreeBSD 6. You must have full access to a computer or server to run DutchPIPE. You can also run it from a Windows machine, for example using WAMP5 to install Apache, PHP and MySQL, or using IIS and Microsoft SQL Server.

2. A web server

   You should be able to use any web server with PHP 5 support, such as Apache, IIS and lighttpd. DutchPIPE.org runs on Apache 2.2, it was also successfully tested on IIS.

3. PHP 5 with the extensions: simple_xml and sockets (both for the web server and "on the command line")

   DutchPIPE.org is currently running PHP 5.2.3. The simple_xml extension is supported by default in PHP 5.

   To enable the avatar upload feature the gd extension is required. The gd extension also makes image handling a bit faster.

4. A database

   DutchPIPE supports MySQL, MySQLi, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Frontbase, Querysim, Interbase/Firebird, MSSQL and SQLite.

5. An AJAX capable web browser

   The following web browser versions are supported 100%: Firefox 1 and 2, Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Opera 9 are Safari 3.