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NPS Environment and Installation
In this portion of the course, we are going to cover the following areas:
- Prerequisites to NPS installation
- eDirectory installation
- J2SE installation
- Apache installation
- Tomcat installation
- Apache/Tomcat redirector
- NPS installation
Warning: The recommendations made in this course are only intended for training environment and should not be the basis of any live deployment consideration. The reason for this is that this course has accompanying labs and source code to get you started with NPS, but not to give you a complete education as to how to implement a NPS solution at your company.
NPS can be installed on a myriad of platforms. You will need to make a choice that is logical to your needs. The following table shows this:
| Platform | Webserver | Servlet Engine |
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| NetWare 6 with JVM 1.3
or greater for NetWare
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Apache v1.3 or greater
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Tomcat v3.2 or greater, but
NOT v4.x.
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| Windows NT with Service
Pack 2 or greater
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IIS 4.0
Apache v1.3 or greater |
Tomcat v3.2 or greater, but
NOT v4.x
JRun |
| Windows 2000 with Service
Pack 2 or greater
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IIS 5.0
Apache v1.3 or greater |
Tomcat v3.2 or greater, but
NOT v4.x
JRun |
| Linux - Redhat 7.0 or
greater
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Apache v1.3 or greater
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Tomcat v3.2 or greater, but
NOT v4.x
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| Solaris
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I-Planet 6
Apache v1.3 or greater |
Tomcat v3.2 or greater, but
NOT v4.x
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For this course we are going to use the following hardware configuration:
- Windows 2000 (Professional or Server) plus SP2 (or higher) with NTFS file system
- Memory, 128MB minimum, 512MB recommended
The next several sections will get your Windows 2000-based workstation ready to run NPS. Several products will be installed including:
- NDS eDirectory
- Sun's J2SE
- Apache HTTP Server
- Apache Tomcat
- Apache Tomcat Redirector
Lastly, NPS itself
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