Installation guide

3. Preparing For Installation

Before proceeding with installation of BlueDragon, there are a few concepts you should

understand and in some cases preliminary steps that you should take first.

3.1 System Requirements

BlueDragon Server is supported on the following operating systems, and provides web

server adapters for the following web servers (BlueDragon Server is

not supported on

Windows 95/98/Me):

OS Web Server

Windows 2003

Windows XP Professional

Windows 2000

Windows NT 4.0 Server

Service Pack 4 or higher

 Microsoft IIS 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, and 6.0

 Netscape Enterprise Server (NES) 3.5.1 and

higher

 iPlanet Web Server (iWS) 4.0 and higher

 SunONE Web Server 6.1

 Apache HTTP Server 1.3.9 through 1.3.29

 Apache HTTP Server 2.0.42 through 2.0.48

Red Hat Linux 7, 8, 9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1

 Apache HTTP Server 1.3.4 through 1.3.29

 Apache HTTP Server 2.0.42 through 2.0.48

Mac OS X 10.1 and above  Apache HTTP Server 1.3.x

As for other flavors of Unix, while we have not tested and do not support them officially,

we have had customers run on Slackware, Debian, SUSE, Gentoo and others. The key

requirement is to be running the 2.4 kernel.

If you need to deploy BlueDragon on combinations of OS platform and/or web servers

not listed here, consider using BlueDragon/J2EE. It allows you to deploy CFML

applications on any standard J2EE web server (or Servlets 2.2 servlet engine); therefore if

a given J2EE server or servlet engine supports your desired platform/web server

BlueDragon 6.1 Installation Guide