Taesk CMS hosting requirements

Taesk runs on the LAMP platform, but like any other platform certain modules and configuration options needs to be set in order for everything to work perfectly. In the following the requirements for each LAMP component are briefly explained.

Apache

• Apache version must be 1.3.18 or newer.
• The "rewrite" module must be installed.
• .htaccess should be allowed to change all settings.

It must be possible to get atleast 1 serveralias into the specific VirtualHost setup

MySQL

• MySQL version must be 4.0.14 or newer.
• The "max allowed packet size" configuration option should be set to minimum 10M (default is 1M)

PHP

• PHP Version must be in the PHP 5-series - minimum version 5.1.2
• PHP must be installed as an Apache module - not as a CGI addon
• The Image extension must be installed.
• The MySQL extension must be installed
• The CURLS extension must be installed
• PHP must be configured so that the mail() function is working correctly (a prober outgoing SMTP server must be specified)
• Safemode configuration option must be off
• Register globals must be off
• Magic quotes must be on

One final note regarding PHP configuration: In Taesk version 1.6.6 it is required to have the short_open_tag enabled (it is enabled as default) in order to successfully run the install script. However once installed Taesk CMS does not require this.