Requirements to Host

The requirements imposed upon a publishing server depend on the type of sites to be published on this server: static or dynamic.

In Plesk Sitebuilder, a static site is a site which contains only static HTML pages created with the help of WYSIWYG editor, and does not contain modules - except for the Script and Flash Intro modules. There are no special requirements to a host used for static sites publishing.

A dynamic site is a site with dynamic pages: a site containing at least one module (except for the mentioned Script and Flash Intro).

To guarantee correct operation of dynamic sites, make sure that the publishing location meets the following requirements:

• PHP version 4.3.9 or later is installed on the publishing server.
• PHP supports:
  • The ionCube PHP Loader 3.1.15 or later
  • DOM XML with XSLT support or PHP XSLT extension (Sablotron)
  • Multibyte string functions (mbstring extension)
  • Zlib compression functions (zlib extension)
  • Session handling functions support (session extension)
  • SQLite 2.x with UTF-8 encoding support
  • GD library 2.0.1 or later
• In php.ini the following directives are installed:
  • default_charset = "UTF-8"

    Note: Make sure that all extensions you have installed are listed in the extensions directory and in the php.ini file. If PHP is installed as an Apache module, restart Apache after applying the changes.