Create VCL Admin Account

Owned by
David L Napier
Jan 31, 2020
1 min read

Instructions

  1. Connect to the server via ssh.

    ssh -i <path_to_cert> ubuntu@ischoolvcl.umd.edu

  2. Activate the python virtualenv for the VCL application.

    sudo -s cd webapps/vcl/ source bin/activate cd vcl/settings nano base.py

  3. Comment out the following line with a hash symbol

    CASMiddleware from Middleware classes, CAS_SERVER_URL, CAS_VERSION, django_cas.backends.CASBackend in Authentication_Backends

  4. Edit the URLs python file

  5. Uncomment the following line by removing the hash symbol.

  6. Comment out the parts between #django_cas links & #django_cas ends.

  7. Restart the web and application server