Chapter 3. Prerequisites

Table of Contents

Web Server
Relational Database
Content Storage

Web Server

WACS is primarily designed to work with the Apache 2 web server as this is the industry leading web server for Linux and Unix platforms. It's also available for the Mac OSX platform from various sources, and even for Microsoft Windows under the name WAMP Server. While other web servers may work fine, we would not recommend using them at this time and stage of WACS development. The RPM/DEB packages automatically drop in configuration file snippits to ensure correct operation of apache 2 on Linux releases with supported packages.

If you are using a web site hosting provider, most will be using Linux for their standard service and will be using a suitable version of Apache. Most will confirm this in their detailed features card before sign-up - if not, you can always ask their pre-sales support contacts. Do be aware that there are some limitations on using WACS on a web site hosting provider and the installation currently requires some manual intervention and editing. The introduction of the new database authentication method in WACS 0.8.5 does make WACS much more suitable for using on a web site hosting provider than previous releases.