Roller 4.0 with LDAP and CAS

This page is designed to show how to integrate Roller 4.0 with LDAP and JA-SIG Central Authentication Service. To begin, you will need to download the following:

• Apache Directory Server 1.5.1
• Apache Directory Studio 1.0.1
• Apache Roller 4.0
• Apache Tomcat 6.0.14
• CAS 3.1

Install Roller and Test

The first step is to install Roller and ensure it works on your application server.

1. Install Tomcat 6 and install the MySQL JDBC Driver in its "lib" directory. Also install JavaMail's activation.jar and mail.jar.
2. Create a CATALINA_HOME environment variable that points to the location where you installed Tomcat.
3. Create a roller-custom.properties file and put it in your server's classpath ($CATALINA_HOME/lib for Tomcat 6).

   installation.type=auto 
   database.configurationType=jdbc 
   database.jdbc.driverClass=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver 
   database.jdbc.connectionURL=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/rollerdb?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true 
   database.jdbc.username=root 
   database.jdbc.password= 
   mail.configurationType=properties 
   mail.hostName=localhost
   

4. Copy apache-roller-4.0/webapps/roller to $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/roller and start Tomcat.
5. Go to http://localhost:8080/roller and complete the steps to add a new user and create a blog.

Install LDAP and Test

Install CAS and Test

Install Apache Directory Server using the installer for your OS. If you're on OS X, the server will be installed in /usr/local/apacheds by default.