[SciFed] Tomcat 6 requirement for Shib IDP

[Dhivakaran Muruganantham]

We do have a few machines, setup this way with jpackage.repo.
Not anymore.
Have a new machine setup this way
jpackage.repo on CentOS5.7 with jpackage-rhel-updates and jpackage-rhel
enabled
tomcat6 is not available.  There may be a way to change the repo URLs to
get the packages again.
But then the repo itself becomes absolute.

So i started this email thread and the rest....

thanks

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Stephen Chan <sychan at lbl.gov> wrote:

>   At NERSC we're running tomcat6 on CentOS as well using the rpms
> from the jpackage repo. So they are available, but maybe not from the
> main CentOS repositories.
>
>   Steve
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Nate Klingenstein <ndk at internet2.edu>
> wrote:
> > Dhiva,
> >
> > I asked the lead developer of the IdP for details as to why Tomcat 5 is
> not
> > supported.  Apparently Tomcat 5 has a problem parsing
> > specification-compliant cookies that they have chosen to not fix, with
> the
> > suggested remedy of "upgrade to 6."  As a result, we can only support
> Tomcat
> > 6.
> >
> > Tomcat 6 packages are available directly from the Tomcat project's
> website:
> >
> > http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi
> >
> > Future distributions of the IdP with an embedded servlet container would
> > hopefully reduce the amount of package management you'll need to do.
> >
> > Hope this answers your question,
> > Nate.
> >
> >
> > On 1/25/2012 17:37, Dhiva wrote:
> >
> >>> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPInstall
> >>> The Shibboleth Identity Provider, version 2, is a standard Java web
> >>> application based on the Servlet 2.4 specification.
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPApacheTomcatPrepare
> >>> Apache Tomcat 6.0.17 or greater (NOT 7)
> >>> Java 5 or greater (Java 6 recommended )
> >
> > My issue here is that Redhat/CentOS machines does have Tomcat 5 packages,
> > but NOT tomcat 6.
> > But the servlet specification is indeed 2.4, which matches with Shib
> > requirement.
> > I have used jpackage.repo in the past, but it is not consistently
> providing
> > tomcat 6 packages for Redhat/CentOS.
> >
> > I would like to stay with Redhat/CentOS Package Repository, so i wanted
> to
> > know if Tomcat 5 along with the OpenJDK.
> >
> >
> > thanks
> > dhiva
> >
> >
> >
> >
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