3rd-party dependencies

YMCA Website Services’s system requirements generally track those of Drupal with some occasional more opinionated recommendations.

General Requirements

Supported versions may differ based on your Drupal version.

• A supported web server like Apache or Nginx
• A supported database server like MySQL or MariaDB
• A supported version of PHP
• A Linux-based operating system
  • Ubuntu 16, 18, and 20 are supported.
  • CentOS or similar may work as well.

Recommended for advanced functionality, but not required:

• Apache SOLR search server
  • Version 4.9.1 and version 8 have been tested for Activity Finder. Other versions are works in progress.

For high load/performance sites

• A memory-based key-value store
  • Memcache
  • Redis
• A reverse proxy/HTTP cache
  • Varnish
  • Nginx reverse proxy

See also Drupal’s recommendations for managing site performance and scalability.

For development

• Oracle VM Virtualbox
• Vagrant configuration manager
• Ansible configuration manager and automation
• Composer package manager
• Docker virtual environments

See our installation instructions for a full walkthrough of these tools.

Software libraries and frameworks

YMCA Website Services leverages many other open source frameworks including, but not limited to:

• Drupal
• Symfony
• ReactJS
• Vue.js
• Google reCAPTCHA
• NodeJS