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Define the crowd-home Directory by editing the crowd-init.properties file

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PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is needed to start so if you haven't installed it already go to PostgreSQL
We need to create a database user so change back to your log in because serveradmin cannot use sudo.
First log in to PostgreSQL then: (remember to actually put a password to replace putYourPasswordHere)

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Notification Email Address — The email address which will receive notifications about server events.
From Email Address — Crowd will add this email address as the 'sender' on the emails generated by Crowd and sent to users.
Subject Prefix — The prefix which will appear at the start of the email subject, for all emails generated by Crowd. This can be useful for email client programs that offer filtering rules.
Mail Server Type — Select the 'SMTP Server' radio button.
SMTP Host — The hostname of the SMTP mail server, e.g. 'localhost' or 'smtp.acme.com'.
SMTP Port — The port on which the SMTP mail server listens. The default is '25'.
Username — The username that your Crowd server will use when it logs in to your mail server.
Password — The password that your Crowd server will use when it logs in to your mail server.
Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) — Select this check-box if you want to access your mail server over SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). This ensures that all email communications between Crowd and your mail server are encrypted, provided your mail server supports SSL.

Integrating Crowd with Apache

Installing the Crowd Apache Connector on Ubuntu-Linux

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sudo apt-get -y install autoconf libtool apache2-threaded-dev libsvn-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev apache2-mpm-worker libapache2-svn

Enter the following commands

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wget https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/svn/CWDAPACHE/tags/2.0.2/mod_authnz_crowd-2.0.2.tar.gz
tar xzf mod_authnz_crowd-2.0.2.tar.gz
cd mod_authnz_crowd-2.0.2
autoreconf --install
./configure
make
sudo make install

Restart Apache after

Integrating Crowd with Subversion

If you are using Apache to manage access to a subversion repository (instructions), you can use the same configuration method to delegate user authentication to Crowd.

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