How To Install gridsite on CentOS 8
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.
