1. Platforms and Open Standards
(About Joomla!/The Project)

Joomla! runs on any platform including Windows, most flavours of Linux, several Unix versions, and the Apple OS/X platform. Joomla! depends on PHP and the MySQL database to deliver dynamic content.  ...

2. What are the requirements to run Joomla! 1.5?
(FAQs/General)

... on different Web servers like Microsoft IIS it just requires additional configuration of PHP and MySQL. Joomla! also depends on a database, for this currently you can only use MySQL. Many people know ...

3. Joomla! Overview
(About Joomla!/The CMS)

... everybody, and anybody can develop it further. It is designed to work (primarily) with other Open Source, free, software such as PHP, MySQL, and Apache. It is easy to install and administer, and is reliable. ...

4. My MySQL database does not support UTF-8. Do I have a problem?
(FAQs/General)

No you don't. Versions of MySQL lower than 4.1 do not have built in UTF-8 support. However, Joomla! 1.5 has made provisions for backward compatibility and is able to use UTF-8 on older databases. Let the ...

5. MySQL
(Web Links / Joomla! Specific Links)

The database that Joomla! uses

6. Planet MySQL
(News Feeds / Related Projects)

http://www.planetmysql.org/rss20.xml ...