System Requirements - Raising the bar

Posted by shanefjordan on May 9, 2008 at 7:44pm

I was wondering if there are any plans to raise the current system requirements as drupal progresses? I am beginning a installation of Drupal (5.7) and will be converting a large amount of data from an existing CMS into Drupal. The system currently has MySql 4.1.20 and PHP 4.3.9. The issue is, there is not a stable release of a newer version of either MySql or PHP for the OS we are running that would fall under our support contract. However, we could grab the newer versions and install them without support. If there is not any plans to raise the requirements in the near future, then I will continue with my current setup. If there are plans to raise the requirements, I would rather work through doing the upgrade debugging now, then in 4 months when we are ready to move live with the Drupal version of our website.

Any thoughts/comments would be great!

- Shane

Comments

From the d7

Posted by WorldFallz on May 9, 2008 at 7:56pm

From the d7 readme.txt:

Drupal requires a web server, PHP 5 (5.2.0 or greater) (http://www.php.net/) and
either MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/) or PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org/).
The Apache web server and MySQL database are recommended; other web server and
database combinations such as IIS and PostgreSQL have been tested to a lesser
extent. When using MySQL, version 5.0 or greater is required.

also see: http://drupal.org/requirements (which displays the current requirements at any given time, the d7 ones arent on there yet.)

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