TWiki System Requirements
Server and client system requirements for TWiki 01-Sep-2001
Overview
Maintaining minimum client and server requirements is necessary to keep TWiki deployment as broad as possible.
Server Requirements
TWiki is written in Perl 5, uses a number of shell commands, and requires
RCS (Revision Control System), a GNU Free Software package. TWiki is developed in a basic Linux/Apache environment. It also works with Microsoft Windows, and should have no problem on any other platform that meets the requirements:
| Required Server Environment |
|---|
| Resource | Unix | Windows |
|---|
| Perl | 5.005_03 or higher |
| Non standard Perl modules | Net::SMTP (or sendmail) | Net::SMTP, MIME::Base64, Digest::SHA1 |
| RCS | 5.7 or higher |
| Other external programs | ls, fgrep, egrep |
| Web server | Apache; others (with support for CGI, authentication, extended path) * |
Current documentation covers Linux only. A
TWikiOnWindows installation guide is next.
Client Requirements
The TWiki
standard installation has extremely low browser requirements:
- HTML 3.2 compliant
- generates XHTML 1.0 pages that are compatible with HTML 3.2
- minimal use of JavaScript in the user interface (degrades gracefully)
- no cookies
- no CSS
You can easily add capabilities, through customizing the templates, for one, while tailoring the browser requirements to your situation.
Known Issues
- The new TWikiPlugins feature currently does not have compatibility guidelines for developers. Plugins can require just about anything: browser-specific functions, stylesheets (CSS), DHTML, Java applets, cookies.
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MikeMannix - 15 Sep 2001
