Installation guide

Hardware and Software Requirements
Chapter 1 Before You Install iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition 13
Unix/Linux
• Swap space at least as large as the amount of RAM on your system (twice the amount
of RAM is recommended). Linux requires 256 MB swap space.
• Netscape Communicator 4.72 or higher, or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher.
• Java 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), also known as a Java 2 Software Development Kit
(SDK) installed on your system if you plan to use uncompiled Java Server Pages
(JSPs). iPlanet Web Server requires the following versions of the JDK:
❍ Solaris: JDK 1.2.2_07
❍ Linux: JDK 1.2.2
❍ HP-UX: JDK 1.2.2_07
❍ AIX: JDK 1.2.2
❍ Tru64: JDK 1.2.2-8
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).
• 30 MB free disk space for the log files (for approximately 300,000 accesses per day).
• Netscape Communicator 4.72 or higher, or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher.