unicon-cas-overlay

Generic CAS maven war overlay to exercise the latest versions of CAS as well as the latest features of cas-addons

This overlay could be freely used as a starting template for local CAS maven war overlays.

Versions

<cas.version>3.6.0</cas.version>
<cas-addons.version>1.16</cas-addons.version>

Requirements

• Apache Maven 3
• Web Server (e.g. Apache Tomcat 7)
• Apache Ant (Optional)

Configuration

The etc directory contains the sample configuration files that would need to be copied to an external file system location (/etc/cas by default) and configured to satisfy local CAS installation needs.

Deployment

Ant

• Set CATALINA_HOME to the location of the Tomcat directory (e.g. /apps/tomcat)
• Set M2_HOME to the location of the Maven directory (e.g. apps/maven)
• Execute ant deploy

The ant build automatically invokes maven to produce the cas.war file. It then copies the cas.xml context fragment to Tomcat, pointing to the location of the web application file removing the need to copy the web application to the webapps directory.

Shell

• Set CATALINA_HOME to the location of the Tomcat directory (e.g. /apps/tomcat)
• Modify the cas.xml file to point to the location of cas.war file. (e.g. /apps/unicon-cas-overlay/target/cas.war)
• Execute deploy.sh

Tomcat is shutdown first. The build automatically invokes maven to produce the cas.war file. It then copies the cas.xml context fragment to Tomcat, pointing to the location of the web application file removing the need to copy the web application to the webapps directory. Finally, tomcat is restarted to load the webapp.

Manual

• Execute mvn clean package
• Modify the cas.xml file to point to the location of cas.war file. (e.g. /apps/unicon-cas-overlay/target/cas.war)
• Copy the file over to $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost
• Restart tomcat.