james, all i can say is good luck with that one. as you stated if so many people are having problems getting the script to run, and its not necessarily "bugs" but server configuration, then i would step out on a limb and say boonex dont want us knowing that. this would step on their wallets, as for every hosting account opened from this site on hfw boonex is credited $25.00, and that my friend is why you would never see them post the proper configuration. there are some hints as to what see more you should have as a bare bones minimum, but there are many parameters, and you must understand this as well, not all shared hosting is going to allow the server settings to be changed. there are a few of us with vps and dedicated hosting boxes, but you can read on here that tons of users are using wamp or xamp, or some shared $2.00 per month hosting account, and that is just never going to work for this script i can assure you of that.

i dont think many are running php4 any longer, but if they are they should upgrade. php5 does run a lot smoother, and you forgot to mention phpcgi, or suphp or phpexec, so there are many different avenues that would need to be addressed and not one servers settings would be exact to the next. there are some modules that are required with the php build, that if they are not done, such as xml and xslt or even xmlrpc for phpcgi, but this is in my opinion a server to server basis, and not something that would be generalized.

not all users of this script have access to server side php, and would only be able to change settings via htaccess or if allowed site side php.ini.

but this is a good question, and would like to see boonex touch on it. i have personally sent them emails asking the same question, but of course that has gone ignored now for about five weeks.

later,
DosDawg