SMF Requirements: Overview

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Requirements:Apache, PHP and MySQL
1. Secure apache install and config:
        - http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1786
2. PHP 4.1.0 or higher. The following are required to be set correctly in php.ini:
        - the engine directive must be On.
        - the magic_quotes_sybase directive must be set to Off.
        - the session.save_path directive must be set to a valid directory, or empty.
        - the file_uploads directive must be On.
        - the upload_tmp_dir must be set to a valid directory, or empty.
        - http://www.freebsdmadeeasy.com/tutorials/web-server/install-php-5-for-web-hosting.php
        - /usr/ports/lang/php5. Make config, make install

3. MySQL 3.23.28 or higher.
4. At least 500 kilobytes of storage space in the database, although more is highly recommended.
5. At least the following privileges: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, ALTER, and INDEX.
6. During installation and conversion, the CREATE and DROP privileges.
7. 6 megs of free space



Completed:
1. Downloaded apache, untarred into /usr/local/httpd
2.

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Quiz Material:
Chapter 4:
1. Open ended questions don't have single answers
2. Getting requirements can be achieved
3. When done with observation you would have documentation resulting from JAD: Joint Application Design.
4. 2 Examples of modern methods of requirements determination. Prototyping and JAD sessions.
5. JAD session is a brain-storming session for requirements determination.
6. BPR: Business Process Reengineering is the goal of fixing or improving the system that you're examining.
7. DFD Decomposition is where we take a system; say a business and break it down into separate processes called at their most basic element, the Primitive DFD.