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      • Requirements
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        • Varbase API
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    • Configuring a Varbase Site
      • Navigation
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      • Using View Modes Inventory
      • Content Moderation and Workflows
      • URL Aliases in Varbase/Drupal
        • Configuring URL Aliases
        • Managing URL Aliases
      • Managing URL Patterns for Multilingual Websites
      • Managing Date and Time Formats to Display Across the Site
      • Using Varbase Layout Builder
        • Creating a Landing Page With Varbase Layout Builder
        • Activating Varbase Layout Builder for Content Types
      • Configuring Pathologic When Going Live
      • Configuring SEO Features
        • Disallow Oembed Media Links
      • Configuring Security Features
        • Spam Protection
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        • Other Security Kits
        • Flood Contorl
        • Enable HTTP Password Authentication
      • Configuring JSON:API Features
      • Configure Varbase Media Hero Slider
      • Configuring Varbase Media Header
      • Configuring Varbase Mailer Settings
        • Configure Symfony Mailer
        • Configure Swift Mailer
        • Switch From Swift Mailer to Symfony Mailer
      • Entity Definition Update Manager Class
      • Module Installer Factory Class
    • Theme Development with Varbase
      • Understanding The Vartheme Base Theme
      • Creating Your Own Theme
      • Local Tasks and Moderation Sidebar
      • Add Preloaded Fonts in Vartheme
      • Switch From Node SASS to Dart SASS for Old Sub-Themes
    • Launching a Varbase Site to Production
    • Updating a Varbase Site
      • Understanding Varbase Updater Package
      • Handling Patches When Updating
      • Handling Configuration Updates
      • Updating Varbase to work with Composer 2.0
      • Updating Drush to the Latest Stable Version
      • Version Update Guides
        • Updating Varbase ~9.0 to Drupal 10
        • Switch from CKEditor 4 to CKEditor 5 in Varbase ~9.1.0
        • Updating from Varbase 8.x to 9.x
    • Varbase Patches
    • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
    • Extending Varbase
      • Overriding Varbase
      • Creating Your Own Feature
      • Creating A Sub Profile From Varbase
        • Varbase Sub Profile Generator
        • Varbase Sub Profile Basic Template
        • Varbase Sub Profile Basic Project Template
      • Install Needed YARN and Gulp Tools
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      • Check Standards/Practice Coding And Linting
  • Content Designers
    • Terminology
    • Accessing the Administration Area
      • Website Environments
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      • Default Roles and Site Personas
        • Edit Roles' Permissions
        • Managing Roles
      • Add User
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      • Masquerading as another user
    • Dashboard
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      • EntityQueues
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        • Add Menu Items
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        • Adding a Page to the Menu
      • Taxonomies
        • Manage Vocabulary
        • Edit Vocabulary
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        • Add Terms
        • Reorder and Edit Terms
      • Webforms
        • Setting up Emails Handler Conditions
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    • Content Management
      • Create Content
        • Add a Basic page
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        • Add Blog
        • Add Media
          • Image
          • Remote video
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      • Modify Content
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      • URL Alias
    • About Layout Builder
      • Section
      • Custom Blocks
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        • Rich-Text Editor “WYSIWYG”
      • Managing Blocks
    • Search Engine Optimization
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      • Prevent a Single Content From Being Indexed
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Requirements

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Client-side Requirements

Component

Description

Browser

A browser with the ability to fully execute JavaScript from Varbase to access its full functionality.

Server-side Requirements for Evaluation or Development

The below requirements outline the minimum needed requirements. If you need help sizing your server, please contact us at for consultation.

  • Disk space: Minimum 300MB for codebase, 5GB for files, and 1GB for the database (Will greatly depend on your application data and usage).

  • Memory: Minimum of 2GB (for 1 host). Minimum PHP memory of 196MB (might need to increase this as your Varbase site's functionalities increase).

  • CPU: Minimum of 2 CPUs is recommended (for 1 host).

Component

Description

PHP

PHP 8.2 or higher. PHP 8.3 is recommended.

PHP extensions: mysqli (for MySQL), pgsql (for PostgreSQL), yaml, gd, openssl, json, curl, mbstring, date, dom, filter, hash, pcre, pdo, session, SimpleXML, SPL, tokenizer, mcrypt

Applications

Composer

Drush 12 or higher

Git

Web Server

Varbase works on any web server with PHP version of 8.3 or higher. mod_rewrite is required if you use Apache.

ngx_http_rewrite_module if you use Nginx.

Database Engine

Varbase works on any multiple database engines. MySQL, MariaDB or Percona Server (Recommended)

  • MySQL 8 is supported only on Varbase 8.6.x or higher

  • Required MySQL 5.5.3/MariaDB 5.5.20/Percona Server 5.5.8 or higher with InnoDB

To deploy and run Varbase your web server must meet certain minimum requirements. We recommend sizing your application and considering your database size, files data, and expected traffic.

Your servers' requirements will greatly be impacted by the usage of your application. For example, if you have more logged-in users that are anonymous users, you will need to consider higher requirements to serve non-cached requests.

Server-side Requirements for Production

Component

Description

PHP

PHP 8.2 or higher. PHP 8.3 is recommended.

PHP extensions: mysqli (for MySQL), pgsql (for PostgreSQL), xml, gd, openssl, json, curl, mbstring, date, dom, filter, hash, pcre, pdo, session, SimpleXML, SPL, tokenizer, mcrypt

Applications

Composer

Drush 12 or higher

Git

Web Server

Varbase works on any web server with a PHP version of 8.3 or higher.mod_rewrite is required if you use Apache. ngx_http_rewrite_module if you use Nginx.

Database Engine

Varbase works on multiple database engines. MySQL, MariaDB, or Percona Server (Recommended)

  • MySQL 8 is supported only on Varbase 8.6.x or higher

  • Required MySQL 5.5.3/MariaDB 5.5.20/Percona Server 5.5.8 or higher with InnoDB

Memcache

Memcached server daemon

PECL Memcache or PHP Memcached libraries

Varnish

Varnish cache, an advanced and very fast reverse-proxy system.

Solr Search

The minimum support Solr version is Solr 6.4 and Solr 7 is supported.

If you need help sizing your server, please contact us at for consultation.

For production environments, PHP memory of 256MB is recommended. In some memory-intensive pages, you can .

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optionally increase memory using ini_set()