The requirements for an automated installation are the same as for the normal installation method. Please refer to the "Requirements for doing a normal installation" page for more information.

At the minimum, a web server, a PHP engine, and a database server must be installed. Additional server-side software is only necessary if the kick-start configuration file instructs the system to make use of such software. For example, "ImageMagick" has to be available if it has been specified as the primary image manipulation solution.

The next section explains how Exponential can be configured to do an automated installation of itself.