Prerequisite

Phraseanet is supposed to work on an AMP system, which configuration has to be checked.

HTTP Server

One of these

• Nginx >= 1.0 (Recommanded) – configuration
• or Apache >= 2.2 – configuration

Database

Phraseanet requires an InnoDB storage engine. We strongly recommend MariaDB as a replacement for MySQL.

• MariaDB >= 5.1

PHP

• PHP >= 5.3.4 with :

+Dom +exif +ftp +gd2 +hash +iconv +xml +mbstring +mysql +pcre +SimpleXML +sockets +xsl +zlib +mail +mcrypt +pdo +CURL +JSON +gettext

Phraseanet Specific

• PHP-phrasea Extension

  You have to install PHP-Phrasea to use Phraseanet.

  Download and Install :

  git clone https://github.com/alchemy-fr/Phraseanet-Extension php-phrasea
  cd php-phrasea
  ./configure
  make
  make install
  

• Phraseanet Indexer

  It is our Index engine. It is required for thesaurus and full-text indexation.

  git clone https://github.com/alchemy-fr/Phraseanet-Indexer phraseanet_indexer
  cd phraseanet_indexer
  aclocal
  automake -a
  autoconf
  ./configure
  make
  make install
  

Locales

On Unix / GNU-Linux systems, it is necessary to enable locales to use Phraseanet in your languages.

Debian example :

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Ubuntu example :

• Activate via /etc/locale.gen
• Execute /usr/sbin/locale-gen

Note

Locales must be in UTF-8.

Third Party Programs

To generate subviews, Phraseanet uses third party programs, depending on their type

• Imagemagick >= 6.3.7 Thumbnails and previews extraction from bitmap.
• Ufraw ImageMagick deleagtion for RAW images
• FFmpeg, Mplayer Previews and Thumbnails extraction from videos and audios.
• Ghostscript >= 9 Previews and thumbnails extraction from graphix vectors and postscript.
• XPDF Text extraction from PDFs.
• SWFTools Previews and thumbnails extraction from Adobe Flash files.
• Exiftool RDF metadatas extraction.
• Unoconv Preview and thumbnails extraction from office documents.
• MP4Box Preview extraction from videos.

API keys (optionnal)

• Youtube
• Dailymotion
• FlickR
• Recpatcha
• Bit.ly