Requirements and Setup

This page lists the minimum requirements for installing Tiki.

If you are using standard shared hosting, you can assume that the requirements are met, as Tiki is designed to run on shared hosting, using the LAMP stack. The instructions below are useful for people that are configuring a server for Tiki.

Table of contents

• Requirements and Setup
  • Requirements
    • Webserver
    • Database
    • PHP
      • More information
  • Optional Software or Libraries
• Alias

Requirements

Webserver

Tiki is developed and widely tested with Linux and Apache. However, Tiki should run on any webserver that supports PHP, like Windows/IIS, lighttpd etc. but you should expect to need to tweak things. Please see the Windows compatibility project.

Your webserver should be configured with the following minimal requirements:

• 512 MB RAM
• 100 MB free storage

Database

Tiki requires an active relational database connection. The database can be installed in the same physical location of the webserver (localhost). It can also be a remote database. Tiki requires MySQL

• MySQL 5 or higher (require for Tiki3 or higher)
• MySQL 4.1 or higher

PHP

Tiki version 3 (or later) requires PHP 5 with the MySQLi extension.
Tiki version 4 (or later) prefers PHP 5 with the PDO extension. You can revert back to ADOdb if PDO is not available. Please see: ReleaseNotes40

More information

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Optional Software or Libraries

Some Tiki feautures require the following additional software or libraries:

Feature	Additional Requirements
Image processing, used for thumbnail generation, dynamic chart generation, and to prevent bot/automatic registration.	Use either GD Library 1.5 (or higher) or ImageMagick. ImageMagick is included, by default with PHP 4.3+
Manage and display maps as a GeoCMS (Geospastial Content Management System).	Mapserver 4.6+
Rewrite Tiki's default URLs	Use the Apache Clean URLs to create shorter, or custom, URLs.

Alias

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