Correct -
https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/biig/69172/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n05002intelplatform00install.htm
SAS(R) 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide says:
"4.If your deployment plan separates SAS Web Server from SAS Web Application Server, install SAS Web Server first."
(In the 'Install Order Rules for Multiple Machine Deployments' section of the 'Installing and Configuring your SAS Software' chapter )
similar story if you wanted to do
Machine 1: Meta & Web
Machine 2: Compute
You'd make a plan with 3 machines
Machine 1: Meta
Machine 2: Compute
Machine 3: Web
Configure them in order, but when configuring machine '3' you would go back to machine 1, and configure it in a new configuration directory, (C:\sas\WebConfig separate from C:\sas\MetaConfig)
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