Server and client requirements for ApTest Manager on Linux and UNIX systems
Server and client requirements for ApTest Manager on Linux and UNIX systems |
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ApTest Manager must be installed on a system that can act as a server. You will need administrative access to the system on which ApTest Manager is to be installed in order to perform this installation.
ApTest Manager can be installed on virtually any hardware platform, but for production use a comparatively modern server system is required. A recommended minimum configuration is a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB of RAM and 20-40GB of free disk space (depending on the size of your test case collection, number of tests run, etc.). The server may be shared with other applications, and does not need to be dedicated to ApTest Manager.
The following facilities must be available on the server:
Note: Some Linux versions support an extension known as "SE Linux". ApTest Manager will likely not operate correctly when SE Linux is enabled. You can check if it is enabled using the command sestatus. If it is enabled, you must disable it before installing and configuring ApTest Manager.
The web server must support CGI or mod_perl.
The most commonly used server is Apache, which supports both CGI and mod_perl.
If you are using Apache, you should also enable mod_expires, since this will dramatically improve performance when accessing ApTest Manager from Internet Explorer.
Note: ApTest Manager runs much faster using mod_perl, and so Apache with mod_perl is the preferred web server configuration.
If using Apache 1.3, use mod_perl 1. If using Apache 2, use mod_perl 1.99.08 or later, or 2.01 or later.
Version 5.6 or better is required. If this is not already installed on your system it will be readily available from your system manufacturer or from perl.com or from CPAN.
Note: it is possible that during installation, ApTest Manager will attempt to install additional Perl modules. Some of these modules may require a C compiler to build. This C compiler must be the same compiler as the one that was used to build Perl itself. You can see what compiler that was by executing the command "perl -V".
Note: Sun Solaris 8 and 9 ship with a version of Perl that will work with ApTest Manager. However, it was built with the Sun WorkShop C Compiler. If you do not have that compilation system, and are instead trying to use the GNU gcc compiler, you will need to install a version of Perl that was built with gcc. You can find this, as well as many other useful Solaris utilities, at sunfreeware.com.
If an appropriate version of Perl has not been installed, you will need to acquire it from the sources above and ensure it is installed and operational.
Do not attempt to proceed with the ApTest Manager installation without Perl installed and working on your system!
ApTest Manager uses Perl modules that require some additional system libraries. On Linux and UNIX systems, these include five system libraries: libX11, libgd, libpng, libjpeg, and libfreetype.
These libraries are readily available for all major versions of UNIX and Linux. You need to ensure these libraries are installed on your server before attempting to install ApTest Manager.
Under Redhat Linux, for example, these libraries are available in the packages XFree86-devel, gd-devel, libpng-devel, libjpeg-devel, and freetype-devel. On Fedora systems, use xorg-x11-devel instead of XFree86-devel. You can make sure they are installed on your server with the command:
up2date -u XFree86-devel gd-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel freetype-devel
For other operating systems, please consult your system administrator or operating system documentation for procedures for installing these libraries.
To access ApTest Manager, you will need a web browser that supports Javascript 1.2 and frames. Modern versions of Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Firefox are known to work well with ApTest Manager; some parts of the product do not work correctly with Opera nor with Safari, but downgrade gracefully.
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