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TWiki System Requirements

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Overview

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

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Server-Side Requirements

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Server Requirements

 
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<		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.
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Required Server Environment
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Other external programs ls, fgrep, egrep
Web server Apache; others (with support for CGI, authentication, extended path) *
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Client-Side Requirements

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Client Requirements

 
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  • HTML 3.2 compliant
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  • 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
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Known Issues

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  • 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.
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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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