2. Software Requirements

GForge should work correctly on any system configured like this:

  1. Linux Operating System

  2. PostgreSQL 7.3 or later

  3. Apache 1.3.22 or later

  4. openssl 0.9.4 or later

  5. mod_ssl 2.4.10 or later (included in Apache 2.0 and later)

  6. PHP 4.0.4 or later (note that you'll need to have PHP built with the command line interface support, which only comes standard with PHP 4.3 or later)

  7. php-pgsql (enable it with --with-pgsql when building PHP, or install it as package)

  8. php-mbstring (enable it with --with-mbstring when building PHP, or install it as package)

Optional software:

  1. Turck MMCache or PHP Accelerator or any other PHP accelerator (highly recommended)

  2. GNU Mailman and Python (Mailing list support)

  3. Jabberd (Jabber support)

  4. JPGraph (Gantt Charting and Graphing Support)

  5. Perl, DBI module and associated DBD::Pg.

Successful installations and operations have been done using the following systems: