ShopSite System Requirements

Prior to installing the ShopSite software, your server must meet the following requirements:

Operating systems:
- Linux kernel version 2.2 or greater with glibc 2.1.3 (Intel/x86 servers)
- Solaris v2.6 or greater¹ (Sparc servers), with the complete 2.6 recommended patch cluster installed, including Sun Patch 107733-10
- FreeBSD 4.3 or greater² (Intel/x86 servers)
- Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2003 Server
¹ - If you are using a 64-bit version of Solaris, you may need to install some 32-bit system libraries in order to install and run ShopSite.

² - If your server is running FreeBSD v5.x or higher, you will need to install the v4.x compatibility libraries before you can install and run this version of ShopSite.
Web Servers:
ShopSite should work with any NCSA-compatible Web server that has SSL support. Popular Web server software that is known to work includes:
- Linux/Unix:
  - Apache
- Windows Server:
  - Microsoft Internet Information Server version 5 or higher
Other Software:
- availability of an SMTP server such as sendmail
- NTFS file system (on Windows Server systems)
Hardware:
- Linux/Unix
  - 266MHz Pentium
  - 64 MB System RAM
  - 25 MB + 2 MB/store (average) to run, + 25 MB for install files (only needed during installation/upgrade).³
- Windows Server
  - 400MHz Pentium or greater
  - 128MB System RAM
  - 25 MB + 2 MB/store (average) to run, + 25 MB for install files (only needed during installation/upgrade).
³ - The size of a ShopSite installation and the installation files will vary based off the variation of Linux/UNIX you are using, but most are 25 MB or less.

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Last updated: January 25, 2007
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