The following changes were made to the configuration of software on the Dreamhost server used to host the Serval Maps Visualisations website.

1. The following symlink was created to make calling version 5.3 of PHP easier via the CLI

   ~/bin/php -> /usr/local/bin/php-5.3

2. The Path environment variable was updated to give preference to the above symlink
3. The following phprc file was created

   ~/.php/5.3/phprc

4. The phprc file is used to load the following additional extensions
   1. phar - for working with php archives, such as composer.phar
   2. imagick - used to generate thumbnails