[Building Sakai] Install Instruction for KNL-640 with CAS Authentication

[Maurer, Christopher Wayne]

Kevin,
It's still on my todo list to write up docs for this.  In the meantime,
I'll send you some info, probably tomorrow morning.

Chris

On 11/26/12 4:25 PM, "Kevin Pittman" <kevin.pittman at oit.gatech.edu> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Are there any detailed instructions for installing and implementing
>KNL-640
>(serve content from a separate hostname)?  It's supposed to be built into
>Sakai 2.9, so I'd have thought I could find some instructions for it, but
>so far I've not come up with anything.
>
>If instructions are attached to the JIRA, then could someone either remove
>the security flag from that JIRA since the patch has gone mainstream now,
>or else copy the instructions to a page in Confluenece that everyone can
>access (and post the link here)?
>
>I'm specifically looking for instructions for deploying on servers that
>use 
>CAS for authentication.  Our code developer has created a build of Sakai
>2.8 
>with this patch included, and I've started working with it in our test
>environment.  I've tried a lot of configuration tweaks, but I cannot
>figure 
>out any way to get it to use different CAS serviceURLs for the main and
>content hosts, so whenever one tries to open a piece of content, the
>initial 
>CAS authentication on the content host ends up sending the user back to
>the 
>main Sakai host.
>
>I'm currently trying to use two different hostnames for the main and
>content 
>hosts.  Would it work better to use the same hostname and two different
>ports?  
>Or, is it just not going to work with CAS at all without running two
>different 
>instances Sakai, each configured with a different CAS serviceURL?
>
>Thank you,
>Kevin
>Georgia Tech T-Square Application Administrator
>
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>Kevin Pittman                              kevin.pittman at oit.gatech.edu
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