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41 lines
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# Prerequisites
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To start using Cachet, you'll need some prerequisites.
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## Application Prerequisites
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You'll need at least the following installed on your server:
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- PHP 5.5.9, you'll also need `ext-gd`, `ext-simplexml`, `mcrypt`,
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`ext-xml`, `ext-mbstring` and `ext-tokenizer` installed.
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- [Composer][1]
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- APCu or Redis for caching.
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- A database driver for your DB, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.
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- Git
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> **SQLite**
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> Whilst we support SQLite, we advise not using it for status pages
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> with a high amount of traffic.
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> **MySQL Timezone Info**
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> Ensure your MySQL database has been updated with the correct timezone
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> information. This will ensure that metrics are shown
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> correctly: [https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/time-zone-support.html][2]
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## Developer prerequisites
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If you are looking to contribute to Cachet, thank you! Your help is really
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appreciated! You may need some extra dependencies; depending on what you're looking for.
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Our CSS is compiled from SCSS, so to compile this you will need the following:
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- Node.js
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- NPM
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- Bower
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- Gulp
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[1]: https://getcomposer.org/
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[2]: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/time-zone-support.html
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