Server Requirements
If you need to prepare server for the YMCA Website Services instance, here below you should find all needed software to meet its requirements.
List of requirements
Ubuntu LTS (14 or 16) is preferred. CentOS is ok as well. Or even any other Linux distribution, but was not tested by YMCA Website Services team so far.
(Drupal 8 server requirements should be met)[https://www.drupal.org/docs/system-requirements/php-requirements].
PHP 5.6+ (PHP 7 is better in terms of performance)
List of PHP modules server should have:
- php{{ php_version }}
- php{{ php_version }}-mcrypt
- php{{ php_version }}-cli
- php{{ php_version }}-common
- php{{ php_version }}-curl
- php{{ php_version }}-dev
- php{{ php_version }}-fpm
- php{{ php_version }}-gd
- php{{ php_version }}-mysql
- php{{ php_version }}-memcached
- php{{ php_version }}-imagick
- php{{ php_version }}-xml
- php{{ php_version }}-xdebug
- php{{ php_version }}-mbstring
- php{{ php_version }}-soap
- php{{ php_version }}-zip
- MySQL 5.5+ . Here are the best settings https://github.com/cibox/cibox/blob/master/core/facade-mysql/defaults/main.yml to get it fast and furious
- Apache 2 with mod-php (preffered for stability) or nginx with php-fpm (better for speed and scalability)
- libapache2-mod-php{{ php_version }}
Memcache server (optional)
Server tools
- Ansible (optional)
- Docker (optional)
- SOLR 4.x (if there will be requirement for SOLR search support)
- Varnish (optional)