My standard Drupal server settings etc

Apache

• Drupal will work on Apache 1.3 or Apache 2.x hosted on UNIX/Linux, OS X, or Windows.
• Apache 'mod_rewrite' extension to allow for clean URLs.
•  GD library 2.0 or higher
• 'mod_mime' for mail

MySQL

• MySQL 4.1 or higher
• Db user has to be allowed to: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER.

PHP

• PHP Version 5.2.x (highest), 5.3.14 or 5.4.4 or higher
• register_globals: OFF
• session.save_handler:  files
• error_reporting = E_ALL
• safe_mode: OFF
• Send mail
• max_execution_time = 5000
• max_input_time = 5000
• memory_limit = 1000M
• post_max_size = 750M
• upload_max_filesize = 750M

Some standard PHP modules

• php_curl
• php_gd2
• php_imap
• php_mbstring
• php_mycrypt
• php_mysql
• php_pdo_mysql
• php_tidy
• php_zip