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["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

Hi John,

Some responses below.

Gary

--On 12 April 2010 15:03 -0400 "Imholz, John J." 
<>
 wrote:

> I've got an initial setup of grouper for our institution (at least the
> command line interface is working.)  My host machine is Ubuntu, the
> database is SQL Server.
>
> While I've seen a few "getting started" docs on-line (which have been
> very helpful,) I haven't come across anything that indicates any best
> practices for the server configuration/administration.
>
> I'm looking for advice on what to put where.
>
> For example, I've set up a SVN working copy of:
> http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/i2mi/branches/GROUPER_1_5_BRANCH in
> /usr/local/grouper
>
> Example questions:
>
> Is that a good idea?
Looks OK. You could checkout to a grouper_<version> dir and sym link 
/usr/local/grouper to there.
> Should I have just svn exported the repo into /usr/lib/tomcat/webapps ?
No. In general you should configure and build somewhere else
> Should I symbolic link the UI into /usr/lib/tomcat/webapps ?
That isn't necessary. You can build a WAR file and drop it there, 
otherwise, if you are building and deploying on the same system and there 
aren't permission issues you can set 'deploy.context.dir' in the ui 
build.properties and the build will copy a context.xml to that directory - 
it will contain a pointer back to where you built (assuming 'default' 
build) the UI. On Windows I have 'c:/Tomcat_5-5/conf/Catalina/localhost'. 
I'm not sure where that will map to on Ubuntu.
> How will I deal with upodates in the repo, since I have to modify some of
> them?  Maybe files that will be edited at implementation shouldn't be in
> the repo only templates (*.tmplate) of them?
In general you should not have to modify versioned files. The first time 
you build, template / example files are copied. They won't be overwritten 
in subsequent builds but you have to manage adding any new required 
properties

There are instructions at 
<https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/GrouperWG/Customising+the+Grouper+UI> 
for how to customise the UI without modifying files. The QuickStart 
demonstrates some of the techniques available.
> Did I miss a guide that might help me with this setup?  (while there is
> an "Overview" it's an overview of the directory structure within Grouper,
> not how that should be put on the server.)
<https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/GrouperWG/UI+Installation> has brief 
instructions
> I should note that my unfamiliarity of Java/Tomcat may be what's causing
> some of my confusion.
We do assume a working knowledge of Tomcat - or other application server
> jji



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing