Assistance with First Time Setup on RHEL 6.5

[Michael A Grady]

> On Feb 2, 2016, at 5:26 PM, James W. Anderson <jamesanderson at coca-cola.com> wrote:
> 
> We're using yum to install shibboleth-2.5.5-3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm on the Amazon AMI. Are you saying that the Amazon Linux platform isn't supported by this installer? Is the only solution to build the software from source, to get the mod_shib_24.so?

No, you can do a source RMP build:

  https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPLinuxSRPMBuild

a bit easier than starting with source. But yes, that is what you need to do with Amazon AMI; I've done that several times, tedious but not hard.  And I can tell you, after seeing someone attach a repository to Amazon AMI and try to use an RPM package not actually built for AMI, that that will not work. In that case, there were no obvious errors and shibd appeared to be running fine, but Apache directives to invoke Shib did absolutely nothing. So it not only didn't work, but it didn't work in a way that wasn't patently obvious at first.

> 
>> We're running Apache 2.4 on Amazon's Linux AMI, and the Shibboleth SP
>> is not installing the mod_shib_24.so module. Is the installer looking
>> at something other than the Apache version to determine which version
>> of module to install?
> 
> We don't provide RPMs for that platform, so the issue is with whoever built it. The SP isn't installing anything. You're building the software, be that via building an RPM or from source. Either way, it's a function of the options you provide to configure or rpmbuild. If you don't install Apache, and/or don't provide the options, the module won't be built or installed by the makefiles.
> 

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Michael A. Grady
IAM Architect, Unicon, Inc.

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