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

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

Create the database structure:

bin/gsh.sh -registry -runscript

Check if this went OK:

bin/gsh.sh -registry -check

Run the tests. This is an extensive test suite - on a powerful VM it took me about one hour:

bin/gsh.sh -test -all

No errors should be reported in the end.

 

User interface

This is a tomcat app

 

Apache

This is optional, but good practise.

Apache can be used 

 

 

cd /etc/apache2
a2enmod proxy_ajp
 

Configure certificates etc 

 

 

 

TO BE CONTINUED