Installation
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## Installation

1. On what platforms does more.groupware run?
2. Which webserver should/can I use?
3. What PHP version should I have?
4. What database should I use?
5. Where can i find the exact installation instructions?
6. Is there a graphical installation procedure?
7. Is there an easy update path / update procedure?

1. | On what platforms does more.groupware run?

Basically it should run on any platform PHP runs on. Right now these are at least:

- Linux

- HP-UX

- Solaris

- OpenBSD

- MacOS X

- Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

2. | Which webserver should/can I use?

We prefer using Apache because of it's stable nature, but you can use of course other webservers like IIS if you use windows. We suggest to use a webserver which can be accessed by PHP via its API, for example Apache, IIS or Netscape/IPlanet. If you must use a different webserver, you can always use the CGI interface of PHP, but this is not the most performant way. So basically you can use each webserver on the market.

3. | What PHP version should I have?
| You should have at least version 4.2.x This is partly due to the usage of the Smarty template engine, partly caused by other things. Older PHP versions are somewhat outdated anyway...
4. | What database should I use?

We suggest to use MySQL because most of the developers use MySQL for developing and testing. But because of our database abstraction which is fully implemented in more.groupware, you should be able to use different databases like PostgreSQL or Oracle in the future. Before version 1.0 of more.groupware is released, we strongly suggest to use MySQL and make no promises that it works on other databases!

5. | Where can i find the exact installation instructions?
| This manual contains all needed information.
6. | Is there a graphical installation procedure?
| Yes.
7. | Is there an easy update path / update procedure?
| No, not right now. Its very tricky to implement a clever update mechanism, so for now, if you install a new version, you are mostly on your own to create the (perhaps) new/modified database structure and to get your existent data into the new database / structure. You will find help, though, in the moregroupware-user mailing list. We will post instructions for manual upgrades there.

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