Recommended Environment

[Scott Battaglia]

Andrew,

When you get a moment, can you add a thing to our CAS User Manual's trouble
shooting section on deploying CAS to RHEL 5?  This will help us later if
other people have similar issues (we can point them to the page).

Thanks!
-Scott

On 7/24/07, Andrew R Feller <afelle1 at lsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Good morning Rob,
>
> I have setup CAS 3.0.7 on a RHEL 5 box recently (past month) and
> experienced the same issues.  The problem is that gcj is the only Java
> compiler that Redhat supports and uses it to compile (among other
> things) Tomcat 5.5.  If you want to use RHEL 5, which I prefer, then you
> need to do the following:
>
> 1. Remove the yum installed Apache Tomcat 5.5
> 2. Download and install necessary Sun Java rpm/binary
> 3. Download the Apache Tomcat 5.5 binaries and unzip/tar them;
>    /usr/local/tomcat-5.5.x.x with a sym link to /usr/local/tomcat
> 4. Download and install Apache Ant;
>    /usr/local/ant-1.x.x with a sym link to /usr/local/ant
> 5. Setup the necessary environment variables in /etc/profile
>    JAVA_HOME, CATALINA_HOME, ANT_HOME
> 6. Download CAS and follow instructions on deploy WAR as necessary
>
> As far as our current environment, I have two CAS boxes on RHEL 4 & 5
> virtual machines on VMware.  Granted this is still a test environment as
> I am still trying to get cluster/replication setup between the two
> boxes. =P
>
> Anyone have a checklist for dummies on configuring firewalls for
> multicasting?
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Andrew R Feller, Analyst
> Subversion Administrator
> University Information Systems
> Louisiana State University
> afelle1 at lsu.edu
> (office) 225.578.3737
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cas-bounces at tp.its.yale.edu [mailto:cas-bounces at tp.its.yale.edu]
> On Behalf Of Rob Wiltbank
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:46 AM
> To: Yale CAS mailing list
> Subject: Recommended Environment
>
> Well, I've been trying for several weeks to get CAS running on RedHat
> Enterprise 5 without success, mainly due to incompatibilities with java
> -- even the latest RC can't be built with Maven because of IBM/GNU Java
> issues.
>
> At this point, I'm getting a bit desperate -- before I recommend a
> different solution to the college, I'd like to make one last-ditch
> effort by taking the RedHat distribution out of the equation.  If any
> one could kindly answer a few questions for me, I'd greatly appreciate
> the time:
>
> - What distribution has the greatest chance of successfully compiling
> and deploying Maven/CAS?
>
> - Are there any recommendations on pre-built packages/RPMs for these
> distributions that would facilitate this?  Ideally, they'd be available
> with the distribution itself.
>
> - Have any pre-configured distributions been compiled into an ISO or
> even something along the lines of a VMWare appliance been released from
> which we can use as a base starting or reference point?
>
> Thank you,
> RHW
>
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