Mark wrote a useful post about building mod_auth_cas for CentOS 7. It works, but I prefer to build RPM packages on a build server and deploy them to production servers, rather than building on production servers.
Basically I took the spec file from the mod_auth_cas source package for CentOS 6 from the EPEL 6 repository, tweaked it, and replaced the source tarball with the forked copy Mark recommended. This built cleanly for CentOS 7.
I’ve sent a pull request back to the upstream project with the Red Hat build files and documentation and for those who are keen, here are the EL7 RPM and source RPM:
Update
There’s an even better way of building this for CentOS 7. Fedora 21 includes Apache 2.4 and mod_auth_cas and it is really easy to backport this source package.
First grab the latest version of the source package from the Fedora mirror onto your CentOS 7 build server. Always make sure there isn’t a newer version available in the updates repo.
Rebuild is as simple as issuing:
rpmbuild --rebuild mod_auth_cas-1.0.8.1-11.fc22.src.rpm
It will spit out an RPM file suitable for deployment on CentOS 7. Add --sign if you routinely sign your packages with an RPM-GPG key.
Hi,
I didn’t say anything about building on production servers. Good practice is that this isn’t done. At the end of the instructions, I said:
“and you can then copy them from here to your production systems.”
I left the exact process of doing that to the reader, as it was only intended as a very short note on how to build the module, rather than a fully description of how to distribute and deploy it.
thanks, mark