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# Requirements
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Headscale should just work as long as the following requirements are met:
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- A server with a public IP address for headscale. A dual-stack setup with a public IPv4 and a public IPv6 address is
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recommended.
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- Headscale is served via HTTPS on port 443[^1].
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- A reasonably modern Linux or BSD based operating system.
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- A dedicated user account to run headscale.
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- A little bit of command line knowledge to configure and operate headscale.
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## Assumptions
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The headscale documentation and the provided examples are written with a few assumptions in mind:
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- Headscale is running as system service via a dedicated user `headscale`.
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- The [configuration](../ref/configuration.md) is loaded from `/etc/headscale/config.yaml`.
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- SQLite is used as database.
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- The data directory for headscale (used for private keys, ACLs, SQLite database, …) is located in `/var/lib/headscale`.
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- URLs and values that need to be replaced by the user are either denoted as `<VALUE_TO_CHANGE>` or use placeholder
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values such as `headscale.example.com`.
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Please adjust to your local environment accordingly.
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[^1]:
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The Tailscale client assumes HTTPS on port 443 in certain situations. Serving headscale either via HTTP or via HTTPS
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on a port other than 443 is possible but sticking with HTTPS on port 443 is strongly recommended for production
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setups. See [issue 2164](https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/issues/2164) for more information.
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