4.1cmsWorks on Linux OS

Nowadays most web sites in the world are delivered using Linux or similar operating systems.

Using Linux as hosting OS for cmsWorks

Though cmsWorks may run on a variety of different types of operating systems, Linux is a little bit predestined to serve it. This is because

• Support of JVMs for Linux servers (OpenJDK)
• Database systems generally are freely available on Linux (here: MariaDB / MySQL for the community edition of cmsWorks)
• Webservers are freely available on Linux
• Linux networking is pretty advanced, extensive monitoring is available
• Linux servers are available from nearly every hoster
• Additional software (i.e. intrusion detection etc.) is easily available

The deployment of finished programs and modules is independent of the client or server you are using: Simply compile / release the files and administrate the server.

Despite the operating system, be it Linux or some other operating systen, some security issues have to come into consideration using cmsWorks, see cmsWorks and security.