Installation Notes

The following contains the installation instructions for the application on the server side. This application first need a web server, a database server and some 3rd party tools to be installed first before it can be run successfully. There are different kind of the web and database servers available in the market. The reason I document Tomcat  and MySQL for the web and database server in here is because this is the development environment of the application. But the application should be able to run in different web server and database server as long as they satisfy certain requirements. Please read the following for more information.

First of all, a web server must be installed that satisfy the following requirement implements the Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 specifications from Java Software. Most of the web server such as Apache also implement servlet 2.3 and JSP 1.2 specification, which means the web server able to handle servlet and JSP requests. Otherwise, administrator can use Tomcat as a standalone web server or just a servlet container.

Secondly, a database server need to be setup on the same or another server machine. This application also support SSL connection when submitting user information to the server. Later on, the administrator need to setup the database table so that it conform to the format that the application check for the user authenticity.