Install Crowd Apache2 Module

For all those who use Atlassian Products such as Jira or Confluence, you may or may not be familiar with Crowd now for anyone using Jira and Confluence it can allow you to use your existing user DB for multiple other systems, Personally i use it as a client access database to keep external users out of my AD database wherever possible while allowing internal users to still access these systems with their AD accounts.

With the right plug-in’s you can hook the system into pretty much everything, the most flexible one is the Apache 2 module, personalty i use it mostly as i had endless troubles getting recursive sub group lockups working with the free Apache modules floating around.

If you need to use a proxy, set it now

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export http_proxy="http://proxy_server:3128"

For Debian just copy and past the commands below, for other Distrobutions you will need to install the equivalent packages

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apt-get -y install libapache2-mod-perl2 libsoap-lite-perl libdigest-sha1-perl liberror-perl libcache-cache-perl unzip make

Then to download, install and build the required modules the commands below should work.

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cd ~
wget http://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/9961902/Crowd-Apache-Connector-1.2.3.zip?version=1
mkdir crowd_apache
mv Crowd-Apache-Connector-1.2.3.zip\?version\=1 crowd_apache/
cd crowd_apache
mv Crowd-Apache-Connector-1.2.3.zip\?version\=1 Crowd-Apache-Connector-1.2.3.zip
unzip Crowd-Apache-Connector-1.2.3.zip
cd Atlassian-Crowd-1.2.3/
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
cd ../Apache-CrowdAuth-1.2.3/
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
cd ../Apache-CrowdAuthz-1.2.3/
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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One Response to “Install Crowd Apache2 Module”

  1. July 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 am #Justen Stepka

    Mate — I’d email you directly, but at first glance I can’t seem to find it on your website. Maybe put a link on the ‘free for a job’ panel?

    Atlassian is about to enter a hiring blitz, recruiting over 30+ engineer types.

    You may be interested in putting together your CV and keeping an eye on our open position or just submitting your CV.

    Email me if you have nay questions!

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