9. Installing MMBase
additional applications
With the release of version 1.7
MMBase
was reworked into a more modular structure.
The developers decided to take several modules
(i.e. CloudContext Security,
Media,
Email)
from the MMBase tree,
and make these available as separate entities.
However, at this moment
MMBase
doesn't have a module interface at all.
So, to use these additional applications,
the library and other files need to be placed into the installation tree
and the configuration needs to be added into the existing configuration files
by hand.
9.1. Installing
the CloudContext Security module
>From the MMBase website
(www.mmbase.org):
"Cloud security
uses the object mmbaseuser
to store information used for authorisation and authentication of users.
The two main advantages of this security implementation are
that the user administration can be carried out by using a webbrowser
(instead of editing a file on the filesystem) and
that the users of your
MMBase installation
are available as objects in the cloud.
For instance, it is possible to create groups of users,
which are allowed to carry out certain tasks."
"A context exists of a set of rights
which describe what you can do within this context
with an object of
MMBase.
For example you define read access to a the context
which is used by anonymous visitors of your site and
you can define a context with edit rights for registered users of your site.
"
Move the library and other files of
the CloudContext Security module
into the MMBase installation tree:
mv -i web-app/WEB-INF/lib/* \
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/lib/
mv -i web-app/WEB-INF/config/applications/* \
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/config/applications/
mv -i web-app/WEB-INF/config/builders/* \
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/config/builders/
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Save the documentation files for later reference:
mv -i web-app/README.txt web-app/README-PACKAGE.txt web-app/documentation web-app/src \
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/mmdocs/security/
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Make sure all these new files are owned by
your tomcat user as well:
chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp
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Disable the existing configuration
in the security configuration file
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/config/security/security.xml:
<!--
<authentication class="org.mmbase.security.implementation.context.ContextAuthentication" url="context/config.xml" />
-->
...
<!--
<authorization class="org.mmbase.security.implementation.context.ContextAuthorization" url="context/config.xml" />
-->
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And add
(from web-app/WEB-INF/config/security/security.xml):
<!--
Example security.xml to switch on Cloud Context Security.
No other configuration needed
(Cloud Context Security is configured in the cloud)
at version $Id: security.xml,v 1.1 2003/06/17 16:44:01 michiel Exp $
-->
<authentication class="org.mmbase.security.implementation.cloudcontext.Authenticate" url="" />
<authorization class="org.mmbase.security.implementation.cloudcontext.Verify" url="" />
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Make sure to include the configuration above before
the <sharedsecret> statement,
or you will get an error like this:
ERROR org.mmbase.util.XMLErrorHandler - security.xml line:71 column:12:
The content of element type "security" must match "(authentication,authorization,sharedsecret)".
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9.2. Installing
the Media module
<TODO>
9.3. Installing
the Email module
The Email module
makes it possible to send email
with MMBase,
using either SendMail
or JMSendMail.
Move the library and other files of
the Email module
into the MMBase installation tree:
mv -i web-app/WEB-INF/lib/* \
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/lib/
mv -i web-app/WEB-INF/config/builders/* \
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/config/builders/
mkdir /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/email-examples/
cp -iR web-app/examples/* \
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/email-examples/
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Save the documentation files for later reference:
mkdir /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/mmdocs/email/
mv -i web-app/README.txt web-app/README-PACKAGE.txt web-app/documentation web-app/src \
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/mmdocs/email/
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Make sure all these new files are owned by
your tomcat user as well:
chown -R tomcat:tomcat /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp
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Edit the email configuration file
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/mmbase-webapp/WEB-INF/config/modules/sendmail.xml
(from web-app/WEB-INF/config/modules/sendmail.xml):
...
<status>active</status>
...
<classfile>org.mmbase.applications.email.SendMail</classfile>
...
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Add to Tomcat's
root Context
(in /usr/local/tomcat/conf/context.xml for Tomcat version 5,
in /usr/local/tomcat/conf/server.xml for Tomcat version 4)
(replace <smtp.domain.tld> with the adres of your
SMTP server):
Resource name="mail/Session" auth="Container"
type="javax.mail.Session"/>
<ResourceParams name="mail/Session">
<parameter>
<name>mail.smtp.host</name>
<value>smtp.domain.tld</value>
</parameter>
</ResourceParams>
<ResourceLink name="linkToGlobalResource"
global="simpleValue"
type="java.lang.Integer"/>
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Failing to do this, results in a fatal error:
FATAL org.mmbase.module.JMSendMail -
JMSendMail failure: Name mail is not bound in this Context
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Installing the Email module
in MMBase version 1.7
running on Tomcat version 5
resulted in a fatal error:
FATAL org.mmbase.servlet.MMBaseStartThread -
Could not find the MMBase module!javax/mail/Session
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