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Requirements:

	Apache web server (UNIX or Windows NT/2000), IIS (Windows NT/2000)
	Perl 5.003

Note for Running on NT

eeWebAccountant can be used on Microsoft Windows2000/NT servers. Both Internet Information Server and Apache for Win32 supported. There are certain limitations discussed below.

   Perl for Windows
   Protected directories
   Configuring email interface

Perl for Windows

eeWebAccountant were tested using ActiveState ActivePerl 5.6.0.623. Since Windows OS does not provide fork() system call, Perl was built to emulate fork() at the interpreter level. As a result, parent process will only exit after its child process has exited. eeWebAccountant use fork() for Mass Mail feature - running on Unix after parsing Mass Mail, Accounts Manager script (accmgr.pl) passes all required information to child process and exits immediately, without waiting for all the mail to be sent. Under Windows Accounts Manager script will be forced to wait for all mail to be sent. Depending on mailing list size the whole process could take considerable time, if during that time user will hit his/her browser Stop button, both parent and child process will be terminated before all mail processed. Be patient.

Protected directories

Protected directories are implemented using Apache-style .htaccess/.htpasswd mechanism, which is not supported by IIS. Since eeWebAccountant continue handle password files in the same manner as if they run under Apache, you can access contents of .htpasswd files from your custom scripts in order to implement application specific authentication scheme. Please note, that since Windows does not support crypt() system call, customer passwords are being stored without encryption for compatibility with Apache for Win32.

Configuring email interface

If your server does not have any sendmail equivalent you can define SMTP server in order to allow eeWebAccountant send mail. Please note, that it is recommended to use sendmail (or equivalent command line mailer program) instead of SMTP, because normally sendmail handles outgoing mail much faster. Taking into account limitations of fork() (see "Perl for Windows" above) this would greatly improve performance.