3. Server installation

You might want to install the different components on different machines. Only the LinOTP core and the UserIdResolver need to be installed on the same server machine. The authentication modules need to be installed on the authentication server, which might be a FreeRADIUS machine.

The LinOTP Management Clients can be installed on any machine, that you want to use to manage your LinOTP infrastructure.

Note

We recommend to install LinOTP Virtual Appliance as a single box using the ready made virtual install CD. Nevertheless, LinOTP Server can be also installed in other different ways on other Linux distributions. Either as tar.gz packages or as DEB packages. Please note, that the DEB packages will only work with Python 2.6 and Python 2.7. If your distribution features Python 2.5 you need to install the server the tar.gz way!

Note

After having installed the LinOTP server, you might want to decrease the log level by changing the file /etc/linotp2/linotp.ini. In the section [loggers] set all levels to WARN or INFO.

• 3.1. LinOTP Virtual Appliance installation
• 3.2. Installing from APT repositories
  • 3.2.1. Debian
  • 3.2.2. Ubuntu 12.04 / 14.04
• 3.3. Installing on RHEL or CentOS v7 (64bit)
• 3.4. LinOTP Server Installation – the tar.gz, virtualenv and pip way
  • 3.4.1. Setup token database
  • 3.4.2. LinOTP and the Apache web server
  • 3.4.3. Further changes for RedHat and CentOS 6
  • 3.4.4. Testing LinOTP Server installation
  • 3.4.5. Creating self signed SSL certificate
• 3.5. LinOTP on Univention Corporate Server UCS
  • 3.5.1. App Center
  • 3.5.2. Join Scripts
• 3.6. Configuration background information
  • 3.6.1. LinOTP Server configuration