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System Requirements
TYPO3 is a web application programmed in PHP, but it is not an application in the usual sense, such as desktop applications for Windows, Linux or Mac. In other words, TYPO3 is installed on a webserver alongside PHP, and you use it with a web browser, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. You "run" TYPO3 on the server itself.
To run TYPO3 successfully, there are some requirements for both server and client (user) that must be met.
Webserver
- Operating System: Unix (e.g. Linux), Windows or Mac
- Web server: Web server Apache, IIS
- Middleware: PHP4
- Database, core system: MySQL
- Database, user extensions: Support for Oracle, MS-SQL, ODBC, LDAP - virtually any external data source. Achieved through PHP4.
- Hardware: A normal web server setup will do, with some modern CPU and at least 256 MB of RAM. As with all database-driven applications, more RAM is advisable.
High-performance setups will want to take advantage of load-balancing and using the staging/static HTML-export capabilities of TYPO3. To get started, check for the static file setup in the mailing list archives and in the installation script.
Optional - but recommended - web server software extras:
- ImageMagick (standalone)
- GDlib/Freetype (compiled with PHP)
- zlib (compiled with PHP)
- Apache with mod_gzip/mod_rewrite
- A PHP-cache (eg. PHP Accelerator / Zend Accelerator, UNIX only)
Individual extensions may require additional software to be isntalled. For instance, the AWstats extension is based on Perl and the Indexed Search engine uses "pdftotext" and "catdoc" for indexing PDF and Word documents.
Client (user)
- Recommended for the Rich Text Editor: Internet Explorer 5+ on Windows, Firefox 1+ (Window, Linux, Mac)
- Required: Any graphical browser (IE, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Konqueror) on any OS (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- Hardware: Relatively modern computer.
