Prerequisites

FusionDirectory is a Web application that will need:

a webserver;
PHP;
an ldap server;

Web server

FusionDirectory requires a web server that supports PHP, like:

PHP

As of 1.4 release, FusionDirectory requires PHP 7.3 or 7.4.

Mandatory extensions

Following PHP extensions are required for the app to work properly:

cas: for CAS authentication;
curl: to communicate with different types of servers and protocols
filter: to filters a variable with a specified filter;
fpdf: to export data in pdf format;
gd: to generate images;
iconv : for the samba integration;
imagick : to handle images;
imap: to handle imap servers management;
json: to get support for JSON data format;
mbstring: to manage multi bytes characters;
ldap: to connect and query the ldap server;
openssl: secured communications and generation of secure tokens;
session: to get user sessions support;
simplexml;
xml.

Optional extensions

Note

Even if those extensions are not mandatory, we advise you to install them anyways.

Following PHP extensions are required for some extra features of FusionDirectory :

gettext : for an internationalized interface.
mhash : to make use of SSHA encryption
sha1 : to make use of SSHA encryption
zlib: to handle snapshots;

Configuration

PHP configuration file (php.ini) must be adapted to reflect following variables:

expose_php = Off;
implicit_flush = Off;
memory_limit = 512M ;      // max memory limit
max_execution_time = 30 ;  // not mandatory but adviced
session.auto_start = off ;

LDAP server

For FusionDirectory to work you need an ldap server.

Servers know to work are :