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Welcome

Thank you for purchasing EasySocial! In this section, you will learn on the pre-requisites that are required before you can install EasySocial on your site.

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Getting Started

Follow these quick steps and start building your awesome social network site in minutes. For a more in-depth overview, read through our documentation, which covers everything else you'd want to know.

If you're curious of what are the benefits and feature EasySocial has to offer, you should surf our EasySocial Demo and get the grasp of the new EasySocial.

Requirements

Before jumping into deep configuration, you'll need to ensure that your site have met the Minimum Requirements in order for EasySocial to run smoothly.

Joomla

EasySocial recommended that you have installed the latest version of Joomla on the site. Although EasySocial supports the following versions of Joomla, but it is necessary that you stay up to date with Joomla.

  • Joomla 2.5
  • Joomla 3.6.4+ (Recommended because of the security fixes by Joomla)

PHP Requirements

EasySocial runs on PHP and it is surely requires PHP to be existed on the site. The following are the PHP libraries and packages that are needed by EasySocial.

  • PHP v5.3.3+ and above.
  • PHP Extensions: ZIP Library.
  • PHP Extensions: GD Library.
  • PHP Extensions: CURL Library.
  • PHP Extensions: Iconv Package.
  • PHP Extensions: FFMpeg v2.8.x Library.
  • PHP Extensions: MB String Library.
  • PHP: [memory_limit = 128MB].
  • PHP: [upload_max_filesize = 128MB].
  • PHP: [post_max_size = 128MB].
  • PHP: [max_execution_time = 120].
  • PHP: [magic_quotes_gpc = Off].

MySQL Requirements

EasySocial requires a minimum version of MySQL 4.1.3+.

Recommended Hosting Providers

We have ran a couple of tests on these hosting providers and we would like to recommend them because they have survived our test and they seems to be pretty good at what they are doing.*

  • CloudAccess - Official Joomla! demo provider. They know what they are doing.
  • SiteGround - Optimized to run on Joomla! sites.
  • Rackspace - Pretty good support and fast servers.

* Please take note that your access and the use of any hosting provider is at your own risk and that you are solely responsible for any damages to your site.

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