Installation

This section describes the process of installing FUDforum on a webserver.

Verifying your system configuration

Before proceeding with the installation process, it is recommended that you determine that you have all of the software needed for the operation of FUDforum:

• You need a web server like Apache, Nginx or IIS that can run PHP programs.
• FUDforum requires PHP 5.1 or higher (we recommend installing the latest version)
• A SQL database: (choose one of the following databases)
  • MySQL 4.1.2 or greater
  • Oracle database 9i or higher.
  • PostgreSQL 8.1 or better.
  • SQLite (ships with PHP 5 and later releases).

If you find that the software on your server is older than the version needed for proper installation of FUDforum, you can download the needed programs from the web, the URLs are listed below. MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and PHP are Open Source and you can download and use them for free, without paying any fees regardless of whether you use them for commercial or personal use. Oracle also provides a free version of their database called Oracle XE (although not open source), that can be used for installing FUDforum.

• PHP - http://www.php.net/
• MySQL - http://www.mysql.com/
• Oracle - http://www.oracle.com/database
• PostgreSQL - http://www.postgresql.org/
• SQlite - http://www.sqlite.org/