Minimum Server Requirements

Below are the minimum requirements to run CSWeb on an Apache or IIS server.

Manually verify:

Apache 2.0 or above or IIS 7.0 or above
URL Rewrite Module enabled

Requirements that will be verified by setup script:

MySQL 5.5.3 or greater
PHP 8.0+
Settings in php.ini

enable_post_data_reading on
post_max_size=8M
Extensions in php.ini

extension=php_curl.dll
or allow_url_fopen=On
extension=php_fileinfo.dll
extension=php_openssl.dll
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
extension=php_pdo.dll
extension=php_zip.dll (necessary with some installations of PHP)

Guzzle (PHP HTTP client) one of the following must be true

PHP 8.0+
or extension=php_curl.dll
or The CA bundle is installed

Files directory

Must exist and be writeable

The above requirements are sufficient to set up a CSWeb server for testing. To use CSWeb for a production data collection operation see Running CSWeb in Production.