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Product Prerequisites

This section lists the required and supported software for installing the SDL Digital Experience Accelerator.

Required SDL Tridion software
DXA requires the following SDL Tridion/ SDL Web 8 software installed, configured and fully operational:
  • SDL Tridion 2013 SP1/ SDL Web 8 Content Interaction Services (CIS) including:
    • .NET implementation of Content Delivery
    • Content Data Store
    • Content Service
    • Context Service
    • Discovery Service
    • Experience Manager

Fully operational means that you can publish content from the Content Manager to the Content Data Store, from which the Presentation Server retrieves content displayed in the Web site.

Required third-party software on Presentation Server
To run Web sites, such as the Example Site delivered with the DXA, install the following .NET Framework on your Presentation Server (the machine on which your Web site is running):
  • For .NET: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2.
  • For Java: Java SE Development Kit 7 or later.
To use the Search module on your Web site, install the following search engine on your Presentation Server (the machine on which your Web site is running):
  • Apache Solr 4.4 or later.
Google Analytics Module requirements

To use the Google Analytics Module you require a Google Analytics site key.

Microsoft PowerShell

To install DXA (not to use it), you require Microsoft PowerShell 3.0. PowerShell scripts can run on any operating system that supports PowerShell 3.0.

If PowerShell is not pre-installed on your system, you can download it from this location: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34595.