Prerequisites for a standard installation - Port Swigger
Summary: PortSwigger's installation guidance for Burp Suite DAST states that standard instances default to port 8080 for HTTP or 8443 for HTTPS, and that TLS configuration is optional but recommended for production. The document also says installations require separate directories for the application, logs, and data, that a new Linux user named burpsuite is created by default, and that production use should connect to an external database rather than the embedded H2 database.
What you should know: The guidance treats running scans on the DAST server machine as suitable only for evaluation, so production deployments depend on dedicated scanning machines sized to the number of concurrent scans an organization intends to run.
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