Sun Microsystems iPlanet Web Server - Manual (Page 12)

Hardware and Software Requirements
12 iPlanet Web Server, FastTrack Edition Installation Guide • June 2000
Hardware and Software Requirements
In addition to the Unix, Linux, or Windows NT operation system. memory and
disk space requirements listed above, your computer must have the following
hardware and software:
Unix
• Swap space at least as large as the amount of RAM on your system (twice the
amount of RAM is recommended).
• 10 MB of disk space for log files.
• Netscape Communicator 4.61 or higher, or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01.
• Java, JavaScript, and cookies enabled in your browser.
• If you are using Internet Explorer, you need to set your browser to check for a
new version of a page every time you access it. To configure this setting, from
the View menu, choose Internet Options. On the General tab, in the Temporary
Internet Files section, click Settings. Click the radio button to check for newer
versions of stored pages every visit to the page.
• A Unix user and group that have the appropriate permissions for running
iPlanet Web Server. This user is different from the user that runs the
Administration Server. Often people use the user
nobody and group nobody
for this purpose, but you can also create a specific user and group.
• A Java Development Kit (JDK) installed on your system if you plan to use Java
Server Pages (JSPs). For more information on the required version and where
to obtain it, see “Installing a Java Developer’s Kit,” on page 18.
Windows NT
• If you plan on running more than two separate instances of iPlanet Web Server
on your system, an additional 16 MB RAM for each server instance.
• Paging space at least as large as the amount of RAM on your system (twice the
amount of RAM is recommended).
• 10 MB of disk space for log files.
• Netscape Communicator 4.61 or higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or
higher