Installation 01 Requirements

The frontend of IXP Manager is a PHP application which requires:

• a Linux / BSD host (Windows may be possible but we have not developed or ran IXP Manager on this platform);
• MySQL (any modern version >5 should suffice, we have developed and run on versions from 5.3);
• Apache (this is the only web server we have developed and run on, sorry Nginx users);
• PHP 5.4 (NB: this code will not run on older versions. 5.4 is standard on current FreeBSD and Ubuntu);
• Memcached (optionally but very very recommended)

To complete the installation using the included config/scripts, you will also need to have installed:

• A text editor such as joe, vi, nano, emacs, pico
• git - distributed revision control system (e.g.: apt-get install git)
• subversion - Advanced version control system (e.g.: apt-get install subversion)
• memcache extension module for PHP5 (e.g.: apt-get install php5-memcache)
• php-apc - APC (Alternative PHP Cache) module for PHP 5 (e.g.: apt-get install php-apc)
• php-mbstring - may be built into the PHP core
• PHP database libraries for your chosen database

In addition to this, there are a number of third party libraries required. Do not install them in advance - you'll be instructed to do this during the installation process and there are some scripts to make it easier.

The libraries required for the MVC architecture are:

• Model: Doctrine ORM 2.3
• View: Smarty (V3 or later)
• Controller: Zend Framework (>= V1.12; ZF2 will not work)

And these are augmented with:

• Bootbox - extends Bootstrap's model dialog;
• Bootstrap-Zend-Framework - styles Zend forms using Bootstrap;
• OSS-Framework - a library of useful extensions to ZF by Open Solutions;
• [Minify[(https://github.com/opensolutions/Minify) - a tool to make minimising and packing JS and CSS files into bundles easier (optional).

Then, we additionally use the following which are included in our Git source:

• Twitter Bootstrap
• jQuery
  • jQuery UI
  • DataTables
  • ColorBox
  • Chosen
  • Throbber.js
  • and a few smaller libraries (which can be found under public/js/

Next Step

Continue you installation with Downloading and Installing IXP Manager and Required Libraries.