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Server Settings Checker

you can download a server settings checker here, upload it to your server and point your browser at it. this should give you an overview of your servers settings and will allow you to determine if bitweaver can be installed on the server:
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Generic Requirements

bitweaver is written in PHP and thus requires research paper help PHP and a webserver such as Apache or IIS

Operation Systems Supported

basically any system that can run a webserver and a database. the most common ones include:

• Linux
• Windows
• Mac

Databases Supported

you will need access to a table on either one of these databases

• PostgreSQL (tested extensively)
• MySQL (tested extensively)
• Oracle (needs some more testing)
• Sybase (not tested much yet)
• Firebird (not much but thorough testing)
• SQLite (not tested much yet)

PHP Settings

The settings below are required by bitweaver to run. If any of these settings are not met, you will have to change these before you can continue with the installation process.

Required settings

Make sure that

• PHP version is greater than 4.1.0.
  (Firebird installations require PHP5 for enhanced driver module).
• Required PHP Modules (Libraries support) :
  • zlib compression support is available.
  • php_session (default on most distros except suse)
  • An image process ( gd or ImageMagick )
• the configuration file 'kernel/config_inc.php' is available and the file is writeable by web server.
• the directories 'storage/' and 'temp/' are writeable too.

Recommended settings

The following are settings that aren't strictly required by bitweaver to run, but are recommendations.

However, bitweaver will still operate if your settings do not quite match those recommended.

Setting	Should be
Memory Limit	at least 16M
Safe Mode	OFF
Display Errors	ON
File Uploads	ON
Magic Quotes GPC	OFF
Magic Quotes Runtime	OFF
Register Globals	OFF
Output Buffering	OFF
Session auto start	OFF

Settings worth knowing about

The following settings are merely for your information and are meant to help you work out problems that might occur.

Maximum post size will restrict the size of files when you upload a file using a form.

Upload max filesize is related to maximum post size and will also limit the size of uploads.

Optional but Highly Recommended Extensions and Software

eAccelerator

eAccelerator increases the efficiency of php by caching and optimising queries. Using this extension will greatly increase your servers performance and reduce the memory needed to run bitweaver.

Ghostscript

GhostScript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF and is used to create PDF previews when uploading PDFs to fisheye. If you do not have this installed, previews of PDF files will not be generated on upload.

MagicWand

MagickWand the newer php extension for ImageMagick. For installation help, please view our online documentation: ImageMagick and MagickWand installation instructions or visit the ImageMagick homepage.

tar

Tarball is a common archiving format on Linux and tar is used to extract .tar files.

bzip2

Bzip is a common compression format on Linux and bzip2 is used to extract .bz2 and in combination with tar .tar.bz2 file.

gzip

Gzip is a common compression format on Linux and gzip is used to extract .gz and in combination with tar .tar.gz file.

unzip

Zip is a common compression format on all operating systems and unzip is used to extract .zip files.

unrar

Rar is a common compression format on all operating systems and unrar is used to extract .rar files.