How To Install gridsite on CentOS 8

gridsite is Grid Security for the Web, Web platforms for Grids

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite on CentOS 8.

What is gridsite

GridSite was originally a web application developed for managing and formatting the content of the http has grown into a set of extensions to the Apache web server and a toolkit for Grid credentials, GACL access control lists and HTTP(S) protocol operations. This package gridsite contains apache httpd modules for enabling mod_gridsite.

We can use yum or dnf to install gridsite on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gridsite.

Install gridsite on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gridsite using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gridsite

Install gridsite on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install gridsite using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gridsite

How To Uninstall gridsite on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gridsite package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gridsite

gridsite Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/grid-security
/etc/grid-security/dn-lists
/etc/grid-security/vomsdir
/etc/httpd/conf.d/zgridsite.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/5e5885a6e9a18488b8e2104a0ce68467a90763
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/80b2b906f3f2acf38b0264e1d1fc6d2ef0e005
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/d8f1ed733a04fbb1029894c653a7af3db42e0b
/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_gridsite.so
/usr/libexec/gridsite
/usr/libexec/gridsite/cgi-bin
/usr/libexec/gridsite/cgi-bin/gridsite-delegation.cgi
/usr/libexec/gridsite/cgi-bin/real-gridsite-admin.cgi
/usr/share/doc/gridsite
/usr/share/doc/gridsite/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/gridsite/httpd-fileserver.conf
/usr/share/doc/gridsite/httpd-storage.conf
/usr/share/doc/gridsite/httpd-webserver.conf
/usr/share/licenses/gridsite
/usr/share/licenses/gridsite/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/gridsite-delegation.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/mod_gridsite.8.gz
/var/cache/mod_gridsite
/var/lib/gridsite
/var/lib/gridsite/.gacl
/var/lib/gridsite/gridsitefoot.txt
/var/lib/gridsite/gridsitehead.txt
/var/www/icons
/var/www/icons/gridsitelogo.png

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.