Grouper UI Part 1 Shilen Patel Duke University This work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Download App Servers Apache Authentication Logging 2 Contents
Grouper packages of all official versions are hosted on the Grouper web server linked from here: re.html re.html Grouper installer will download most Grouper packages for you. 3 Download
Grouper UI is deployed on an application server Most testing on Tomcat 6 Deploy WAR file or modify server.xml file to deploy as an exploded WAR. Load balancer persistence. 4 App Servers
Use a web sever like Apache to front end your Tomcat instance. Useful if you have multiple Tomcats Can help with authentication 5 Apache
Authentication handled by the filter edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ui.LoginCheckFilter Authentication succeeds if request.getRemoteUser() is set. Default works easily with tomcat-users.xml file. But also easy to integrate with Basic Authentication and Shibboleth. 6 Authentication
Set tomcatAuthentication to false in the server.xml file. Remove the security-role, security- constraint and login-config sections from the web.xml file. Configure the Shibboleth SP. 7 Authentication using Shibboleth
Uses log4j for logging By default, uses the Grouper API logging configuration. build.properties allows you to use a separate log4j file. 8 Logging
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