Setting up moregroupware is described in this and the following chapters. Generally you should read this chapter, as it tells you about some basic requirements and skills you should have available and ready. Then you only need to read one of the following chapters, depending on the operating system you want to install moregroupware on.

Requirements

To successfully install moregroupware you need at least the following software packages on your machine, regardless of the operating system in use.

• Awebserver (Apache 1.3.x is recommended)

• PHP 4.1 or later

• Adatabase server (MySQL 3.23.x or PostgreSQL 7.x)

• PHP session auto start must be disabled!

	Note
	Using Apache 2.x is NOT recommended at the moment, as it causes several problems due to bugs in relation to PHP, at least when run on Windows.

We intend to support more databases in the future. Right now MySQL works best, and PostgreSQL support is getting better (the core modules should work). Other databases will follow later.

You should try to run moregroupware with register_globals disabled, if it doesn't work, it's a bug. The same is true for magic_quotes_gpc and magic_quotes_runtime, both should be off. Those are not strict requirements, though.

You do not need XML or PDF support compiled into PHP, nor do you need IMAP. We handle those needs with PHP-only libraries. It does not harm to have those things compiled into PHP, either.