Minimum Requirements

The (Absolute) Minimum Basic Requirements

CRE Loaded 6.4 is designed to run on a so – called LAMP server. This is an acronym which means the server is set up with the Linux Operating system (L), the Apache web server (A), a MYSQL database, (M) and it can run PHP code. (P) The following versions of these components will be required for the proper running of CRE Loaded:

• The Linux Operating System
• The Apache Web Server version 1.3 or greater, with mod_ssl.
• MySQL database version 5.0.12 or greater.
• PHP 5.2. or greater
• PHP is only supported when compiled as an Apache module. PHP compiled in CGI/Fast CGI is not supported


• PHP 5.3 not officially supported – although there are no known issues at this time
• mySQL 5.1 not officially supported – although there are no known issues at this time

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate.

NOTE. If you want to follow the RapidPCITM process, you must also have an SSL Certificate installed by your host. You will need to enable this during the install process.

These components must be compiled in:

• MySQL support
• PCRE support
• ZLIB support
• cURL support
• GD support - recommend the bundled GD library
• ICONV support
• EXIF support - optional, but required for full functionality
• FTP support - optional, but required for full functionality

The follow configuration settings can be set in the php.ini, httpd.conf or in the .htaccess, but they must be set as:

• Register_globals can be on or off, recommended setting is off
• safe_mode - must be off
• session.auto_start - must be off
• magic_quotes - must be off
• file_uploads - must be on
• allow_url_fopen - must be on
• allow_url_include – recommended setting is off

Do we support any other types of servers?

Officially, we do not support any other servers or configurations. However, there are reports of successful CRE Loaded installations on WAMP servers. This is a server running the Windows operating system with Apache Web Server, MySQL and PHP.