== Technical Requirements ==

Dolphin requires the following pre-requisites for your server:

	* Linux/Unix (Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, etc.) or Windows OS, Apache Web Server
	* [http://www.php.net/ PHP 4.3.6] (safe_mode must be off) with DOMXML and XSL extensions and higher (required to run Orca forum)
	* [htt://www.mysql.com/ MySQL 4.0.20] and higher
	* [http://www.boutell.com/gd/ GD library] compiled with TrueType fonts (for photo processing) or [http://imagemagick.org/ ImageMagick] as an alternative
	* Sendmail or Postfix
	* shell or another interface for setting [http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html Cron Jobs]
	* 7MB of disk space and 1MB of MySQL DB space for installation
	* 8MB of disk space and 50KB of MySQL DB space for an average user

Otherwise you will not be able to install and operate Dolphin properly.

If you all the above requirements are met on your server then you are ready for [DolInstallation installation].