How To Install gridsite on Fedora 34

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite on Fedora 34.

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. gridsite 3.0.0 0.17.20180202git2fdbc6f.fc34 x86_64 108 k gridsite-3.0.0-0.17.20180202git2fdbc6f.fc34.src.rpm fedora Grid Security for the Web, Web platforms for Grids http ASL 2.0 and BSD 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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gridsite.

Install gridsite on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gridsite

gridsite Package Contents on Fedora 34

/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/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/8aa50a548d1e9503d3c2a3306c98f94cec53bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/710619583746763a4964766ae6e0063e2096f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/4d389ee3992a842b8a74770644bc6d10b5e4fa
/usr/lib/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
/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/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/04e371ee8d4925f49e17572fc29b2e207a3463
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/b95d25e128849e184e8fce51ba3a8a0607cf9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/d0783eac0c71b519f1f94225f7e73941211406
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.