Crowd 2.6 : Installing the Crowd Apache Connector on Ubuntu Linux

The following instructions have been tested on Ubuntu 11.04. Other versions may require variations to this procedure.

Procedure

  1. Open a terminal on the system, change to a suitable working directory, and enter the following command:

     
    sudo apt-get -y install autoconf libtool apache2-threaded-dev libsvn-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev apache2-mpm-worker libapache2-svn 
    
  2. Enter your password when prompted.
  3. Enter the following commands:

     
    wget http://downloads.atlassian.com/software/crowd/downloads/cwdapache/mod_authnz_crowd-2.0.2.tar.gz 
    tar xzf mod_authnz_crowd-2.0.2.tar.gz 
    cd mod_authnz_crowd-2.0.2 
    autoreconf --install 
    ./configure 
    make 
    sudo make install 
    
  4. Enter your password if prompted.
  5. Everything you need should now be installed and Apache should restart. If Apache fails to start, check the /var/log/apache2/error.log file.

Now that the software is installed, the next step is to configure Apache authentication.