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# System Requirements

## Server Hardware Requirements

MantisBT has modest hardware requirements. It requires a computer that is able to run the server software.

- Server type

  The server can be a shared public web server or a dedicated co-located box.

- CPU and Memory

  As for any web application, you should size your server based on the traffic on the site.

- Disk

  The application code is less than 20 MB

  The amount of disk space required for the database will vary depending on the RDBMS and the volume of data, the main driving factor being the expected number and size of attachments.

## Server Software Requirements

All of the required software is free for commercial and non-commercial use (open source). Please refer to the table below for minimum and recommended versions.

- Operating System

  MantisBT runs on Windows, MacOS, OS/2, Linux, Solaris, the BSDs, and just about anything that supports the required server software.

- Web Server

  MantisBT is mainly tested with Microsoft IIS and Apache. However, it is expected to work with any recent web server software.

  File Extensions: MantisBT uses only .php files. If your webserver is configured for other extensions (e.g. .PHP3, .PHTML) then you will have to request the administrator to add support for .PHP files. This should be a trivial modification. Further details can be found in the PHP documentation

- PHP

  The web server must support PHP. It can be installed as CGI or any other integration technology.

- PHP extensions

  MantisBT is designed to work in as many environments as possible. Hence the required extensions are minimal and many of them are optional affecting only one feature.

  - mandatory: the extension for the RDBMS being used ( mysqli, pgsql, oci8, mssql/sqlsrv, ibm-db2 )

  - Curl - required for the Twitter integration feature

  - GD - required for the graphs feature

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