lychee/docs/Installation.md
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Merge pull request #766 from electerious/develop
* Change the infamous `chmod 777` for something more sensible
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### 1. Requirements
Everything you need is a web-server with PHP 5.5 or later and a MySQL-Database.
The following PHP extensions must be activated:
session, exif, mbstring, gd, mysqli, json, zip
To use Lychee without restrictions, we recommend to increase the values of the following properties in `php.ini`:
max_execution_time = 200
post_max_size = 100M
upload_max_size = 100M
upload_max_filesize = 20M
memory_limit = 256M
You might also take a look at [Issue #106](https://github.com/electerious/Lychee/issues/106) if you are using nginx or in the [FAQ](https://github.com/electerious/Lychee/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md#i-cant-upload-multiple-photos-at-once) if you are using CGI or FastCGI.
### 2. Download
The easiest way to download Lychee is with `git`:
git clone https://github.com/electerious/Lychee.git
You can also use the [direct download](https://github.com/electerious/Lychee/archive/master.zip).
### 3. Permissions
Change the permissions of `uploads/`, `data/` and all their subfolders. Sufficient read/write privileges are required.
chmod -R 750 uploads/ data/
### 4. Finish
Open Lychee in your browser and follow the given steps.
If you have trouble, take a look at the [FAQ](FAQ.md).