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TWiki System Requirements |
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Maintaining minimum client and server requirements is necessary to keep TWiki deployment as broad as possible. |
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Server Requirements |
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| Non standard Perl modules |
Net::SMTP (or sendmail) |
Net::SMTP, MIME::Base64, Digest::SHA1 |
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Net::SMTP (or sendmail) |
Net::SMTP, MIME::Base64, Digest::SHA1 |
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| RCS |
5.7 or higher |
| Other external programs |
ls, fgrep, egrep |
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| Web server |
Apache; others (with support for CGI, authentication, extended path) * |
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Apache; others (with CGI support, authentication, extended path) |
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The TWiki standard installation has extremely low browser requirements: |
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Known Issues |
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- 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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- The new TWikiPlugins feature currently does not have compatibility guidelines for developers. Plugins can require just about anything - browser-specific functions, stylesheets (CSS), Java applets, cookies, specific Perl modules,... - check the individual Plugin specs.
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 Plugins included in the TWiki distribution do not add requirements.
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