Checking the compatibility of symfony with your web server configuration

To check if your web server is compatible with symfony there is a useful script provided by Symfony team that test it for you.

download the file of svn repository.
# wget http://trac.symfony-project.org/browser/branches/1.2/data/bin/check_configuration.php?format=raw
**notice:** the symfony version is passed on url. In this case it's 1.2.

Now run the file with bellow command and test it accessing by browser and both must be OK.

# php check_configuration.php

the output is:

******************************** * symfony requirements check * ********************************


php.ini used by PHP: /etc/php.ini
** WARNING **

*  The PHP CLI can use a different php.ini file

*  than the one used with your web server.

*  If this is the case, please launch this

*  utility from your web server.

** WARNING **
** Mandatory requirements **
  OK        PHP version is at least 5.2.4

  OK        php.ini has zend.ze1_compatibility_mode set to off
** Optional checks **

OK PDO is installed OK PDO has some drivers installed: mysql, odbc, pgsql, sqlite OK PHP-XML module is installed OK XSL module is installed OK The token_get_all() function is available OK The mb_strlen() function is available OK The iconv() function is available OK The utf8_decode() is available [[WARNING]] A PHP accelerator is installed: FAILED *** Install a PHP accelerator like APC (highly recommended) *** [[WARNING]] php.ini has short_open_tag set to off: FAILED *** Set it to off in php.ini *** OK php.ini has magic_quotes_gpc set to off [[WARNING]] php.ini has register_globals set to off: FAILED *** Set it to off in php.ini *** OK php.ini has session.auto_start set to off

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Checking the compatibility of symfony with your web server configuration