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 Requirements
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-- PHP 5.3 or newer
+- PHP 5.3 or newer, PHP 7
 - PHP XML Parser extension is required for parsing SAML2 metadata
+  (Debian/Ubuntu: 'apt install php-xml', CentOS/RedHat: yum install php-xml)
 - The web server users must have write permissions to some files including: 
   * $backupIDPConfigFile (default 'IDProvider.conf.php')
   * $metadataIDPFile (default 'IDProvider.metadata.conf.php')