Title: PHP Set-up
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# PHP Set-up

 *  [mbabc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbabc/)
 * (@mbabc)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-set-up/)
 * When installling PHP (version 5.2.6) on my server, there’s an option to enable
   7 optional features:
 * Enable ‘exec’ function
    Enable ‘popen’ function Enable ‘passthru’ function Enable‘
   proc_open’ function Enable ‘shell_exec’ function Enable ‘system’ function Enable‘
   allow_url_include’ feature
 * Are any of these needed for WordPress 2.7.1 to function properly? I’ve just been
   testing so far and it seems to work smoothly. Given that they can introduce possible
   security holes, I’d prefer not to have ’em active unless I needed to.
 * Thanks.

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 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)

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