TWiki System Requirements

Server and client system requirements of TWiki 01-Sep-2001

Overview

Maintaining minimum client and server requirements is necessary to keep TWiki deployment as broad as possible.

Server-Side Requirements

TWiki is written in Perl 5 and uses a number of shell commands. It requires GNU RCS (Revision Control System) to be installed on the same system. TWiki is developed in a standard Linux/Apache environment. It can also work with Microsoft Windows and other platforms.

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. Compiling a basic TWikiOnWindows installation guide is an ongoing effort.

Client-Side Requirements

The TWiki standard installation has extremely low browser requirements:

HTML 3.2 compliant
minimal use of JavaScript in the user interface (degrades gracefully)
no cookies
no CSS

TWiki generates XHTML 1.0 code as long as it is compatible with HTML 3.2.

Known Issues

The new TWikiPlugins feature currently does not have any compatibility guidelines for developers. Plugins can require just about anything: browser-specific functions, stylesheets (CSS), Java, cookies, etc.

-- MikeMannix? - 29 Aug 2001

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