This is the group management app that we intent to use for our federation plans.

We will run this on an Ubuntu 12.04 VM. 

I would like to stick as much as possible to Ubuntu provided packages, preferably the latest versions of everything. Confirmed on the list that Grouper can run fine with OpenJDK, so no need for the Sun Oracle Java stuff any more. So, at the moment it looks like we're going to use:

To get these installed on a pristine Ubuntu 12.04 system:

 

apt-get install subversion postgresql libpgjava tomcat7 openjdk-7-jdk ant apache2

Download source code, in this case we're fetching version 2.1.1 and stick that under /opt:

cd /opt
svn co http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/i2mi/tags/GROUPER_2_1_1/

 

Make JDK7 the default one:

update-java-alternatives --jre-headless -s java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64

 

Create a database and credentials:

su - postgres
createuser -D -I -R -S -P grouper_user
createdb -O grouper_user -T template0 grouper
exit

Because we run our databases on IPv6 only, we have to configure Postgres by editing /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf:

listen_addresses = '::'

Copy the default hibernate config file:

cd /opt/GROUPER_2_1_1/grouper/conf
cp grouper.hibernate.example.properties grouper.hibernate.properties

and edit accordingly. Note that the values should not be enclosed in quotes:

# Example:
hibernate.connection.url              = jdbc:postgresql://ip6localhost:5432/grouper
hibernate.connection.username         = grouper_user 
hibernate.connection.password         = hackme

Symlink the database driver:

ln -s /usr/share/java/postgresql-jdbc4.jar /opt/GROUPER_2_1_1/grouper/lib/custom/

 

Compile sources:

cd /opt/GROUPER_2_1_1/grouper
ant dist

Run the tests. This will blitz your database, so make sure it doesn't contain precious data:

cd /opt/GROUPER_2_1_1/grouper/
bin/gsh.sh -test -all

This took more than an hour on a reasonably beefy VM. In the end this should not yield any errors.

FIXME BELOW

Now it's time to install the database schema. This is a two-step process. The following command should generate a chunk of SQL code and save it to a file:

bin/gsh.sh -registry -check

This will end with something like this:

 

Note: this script was not executed due to option passed in
To run script via gsh, carefully review it, then run this:
gsh -registry -runsqlfile /opt/GROUPER_2_1_1/grouper/ddlScripts/grouperDdl_20120725_13_14_17_596.sql

Now do as you're told and run the SQL (wink)

 

 

 

 

 

Apache

 

cd /etc/apache2
a2enmod proxy_ajp
 

Configure certificates etc 

 

 

 

TO BE CONTINUED