- Request Server Ops setup the standard system user configuration on this system. This will include groups and system users for logs, www, and db.
- Download the following software from the ISDA software repository onto the system being configured:
httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz php-5.2.3.tar.gz MySQL/MySQL-*community-5.0.45-0.rhel4.i386.rpm MySQL/my.cnf mod_authz_mitgroup/mod_authz_mitgroup_rhel4.c
- Remove previous version of MySQL and install current version
rpm -ev cyrus-sasl-sql-2.1.19-5.EL4.i386 rpm -ev dovecot-0.99.11-4.EL4.i386 rpm -ev mysql-4.1.20-1.RHEL4.1.i386 rpm -ev mysqlclient10-3.23.58-4.RHEL4.1.i386 rpm -ivh MySQL-client-community-5.0.45-0.rhel4.i386.rpm rpm -ivh MySQL-test-community-5.0.45-0.rhel4.i386.rpm rpm -ivh MySQL-devel-community-5.0.45-0.rhel4.i386.rpm rpm -ivh MySQL-server-community-5.0.45-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
- Stop the MySQL server and reconfigure my.cnf. The MySQL server startups as part of the rpm install process.
/etc/init.d/mysql stop mv /var/lib/mysql /home/db chown -R db:db /home/db cd /etc/ cp /root/my.cnf . /etc/init.d/mysql start
- Be certain to use the my.cnf file from the ISDA software repository, as it sets the database user to be 'db' (and not the default 'mysql'), and put the home and data directories into /home/db.
- Install OpenSSL and setup certificates.
mkdir /home/www/tmp cd /home/www/tmp tar -xzvf /root/openssl-0.9.8a.tar.gz cd openssl-0.9.8a ./config --prefix=/home/www/ssl --openssldir=/home/www/ssl make make install
- Setup certificates
- get the mitca at http://ca.mit.edu/mitClient.crt and save it as /usr/local/ssl/certs/mitClient.crt
- convert mitCA.crt to pem format:
openssl x509 -in /home/www/ssl/certs/mitClient.crt -inform DER -outform PEM -out /home/www/ssl/certs/mitCA.pem
- Generate rsa key. This simply generates some random stuff:
ps > /tmp/foo ps -elf >> /tmp/foo cd /home/www/ssl/bin ./openssl genrsa -rand /tmp/foo 1024 >/home/www/ssl/private/`hostname`-key.pem
- Generate request for a certificatecd /home/www/ssl/bin
send the file /usr/local/ssl/certs/`hostname`-req.pem to mitcert@mit.edu,
./openssl req -key /home/www/ssl/private/`hostname`-key.pem -new \ >../certs/`hostname`-req.pem
- Please be aware, the organization (O) is Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the common name (CN) is the name of the server or service, including the domain name (.mit.edu). Also, some servers, such as Thalia servers, can represent an entire subdomain. These servers will need certificates issued with a wildcard in the domain name, such as *.isda-thalia-1.mit.edu.
Remember, if the server is a Thalia server, if will need a wildcard certificate and DNS record for *.[hostname], and if it is doing any type of authentication, it will need a joint client/server certificate to be able to connect to the Shibboleth server (and have end users connect to it as well).
- To generate a self signed temporary certificate, add the x509 and nodes options to the openssl command line.
cd /home/www/ssl/bin ./openssl req \-key /home/www/ssl/private/`hostname`-key.pem \-new \ \-x509 \-nodes >../certs/`hostname`-temp.cert
- When you receive a certificate from MIT Certificates, save it as /home/www/ssl/certs/`hostname`-cert.pem
- to look at a request:
openssl req \-in ./req.pem \-text
- to look at the private key:
##*; to look at the server certificate:
openssl rsa \-in /home/www/ssl/private/`hostname`-key.pem \-text
openssl x509 \-in /home/www/ssl/certs/`hostname`-cert.pem \-text
- to look at a request:
- Install Apache
cd /home/www/tmp tar -xzvf /root/httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz cd httpd-2.2.4 ./configure --prefix=/home/www/apache-2.2.4 --enable-ssl \ --with-ssl=/home/www/ssl \ --enable-modules="most mod_rewrite" --enable-so make make install ln -s /home/www/apache-2.2.4 /home/www/apache
- Set up PHP
- If this is a RHEL 4 system, build it for source to get ver 5.
cd /home/www/tmp tar -xzvf /root/php-5.2.3.tar.gz cd php-5.2.3 ./configure --with-mysql --with-kerberos=/usr/kerberos --prefix=/home/www/php-5.2.0 --with-apxs2=/home/www/apache-2.2.4/bin/apxs \ --enable-fastcgi --enable-magic-quotes --with-openssl --with-mysql-sock=/home/db/mysql/mysql.sock --with-mysqli --enable-sockets --enable-soap \ --with-openssl-dir=/home/www/ssl --with-pear=/usr/share/pear make make install ln -s php-5.2.0 php
- If this is a RHEL 5 system, install from RPMs
- If this is a RHEL 4 system, build it for source to get ver 5.
- Configure Apache