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Installation
Unix
(Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X Server, FreeBSD, etc.) Installation
Mac
OS PPC Installation
Windows
(Windows NT/98/95) Installation
Connecting
for the First Time
All versions
of Web Crossing (Unix, Mac OS and Windows) are installed by:
- Expanding
the archive file containing the server software,
- Running
the installer,
- Starting
the server,
- Logging
in as sysop and setting a few basic items, such as the sysop
password, contact email address, and some things like that.
Naturally,
the three major platforms have their own ways of expanding archives,
running the installer and starting the server. But after that,
you will find that Web Crossing is about as cross-platform-compatible
as you can get. The data files themselves, including the webx.db
file (containing the the entire web crossing conference and user
database), is completely cross platform and can
be moved freely between Unix, Mac OS and Windows servers with
no conversion needed at all.
You can,
for example, design your Web Crossing site completely off-line
on your Mac or Windows computer and then move
the completed system over to a more powerful Unix server for
actual use. So even though your main server might be Unix (a good
choice for a server!), you might want to familiarize yourself
with the installation procedures for all three platforms.
Some
guidelines are the same for all platforms. Perhaps the most critical
of these guidelines is "the more physical RAM the faster
your Web Crossing server will run." Web Crossing is an amazingly
powerful and extendible tool. It is a professional-level, world-class
web conferencing and chatting environment. In order to accomplish
what it does, Web Crossing unapologetically makes liberal use
of RAM, which has become an inexpensive commodity these days.
So load your computer up with memory - 96MB of RAM is comfortable,
more is even better - and let's get going!
The documentation
that comes with your Web Crossing server leads you through the
details of installation, so we will only go through the main points
here, and point out some interesting information that is not covered
in that documentation.
Resources
Web Crossing
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