Installing Centos Directory Server

 

Installing Centos-Directory-Server and initial login.

DNS should be properly configured

Add following file to /etc/yum.repos.d/

# vim CentOS-Testing.repo

[c5-testing]
name=CentOS-5 Testing 
baseurl=http://dev.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://dev.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-testing

Save the file and exit

Install the directory server using yum

# yum install centos-ds

Install Supported rpm

# yum install xorg-x11-xauth bitstream-vera-fonts dejavu-lgc-fonts urw-fonts

Setting up java

# mv /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/java_old

Download the latest vesrion of java to /opt from the Sun and install it

# cd /opt

# tar xvzf jdk-7u5-linux-i586.tar.gz

# vim /etc/profile and add the following lines 

JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.7.0_05
export JAVA_HOME
PATH=PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin

save and exit the file

# source /etc/profile

Configure the directory server using the following command

#  setup-ds-admin.pl 

After configuration start the services

# /etc/init.d/dirsrv start 
# /etc/init.d/dirsrv-admin start

Open Directory server administration console

# centos-idm-console

Login with the following details in login prompt.

cn=Directory Manager
password=**********
Administration url=http://localhost:9830

If you wan to remove the initial configuration and reconfigure it Please do the below steps

Log files         /var/log/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Configuration files     /etc/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Instance directory     /usr/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance
Database files         /var/lib/dirsrv/slapd-instance 

Enjoy !!!!!!