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The default installation with foreman-installer -v works fine; I can access and log in to The Foreman via the web front-end just fine.

When I need different ports for HTTP and SSL to be used, however, and I specify the ports as follows then the installer fails:

foreman-installer -v --foreman-server-port=9080 --foreman-server-ssl-port=9443 --foreman-admin-password=foo-bar-baz

Error Message¶

After configuring KDC proxy for HTTPd (on CentOS) the installer aborts with:

Syntax error on line 18 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ipa-kdc-proxy.conf

Invalid command ‘WSGIDaemonProcess’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Expected Behavior¶

The foreman-installer should install normally even with various, valid command line arguments.

Analysis¶

The file /etc/httpd/conf.d/ipa-kdc-proxy.conf looks like follows, and on line 18 there is the WSGIDaemonProcess directive.

WSGIDaemonProcess kdcproxy processes=2 threads=15 maximum-requests=5000 \
  user=kdcproxy group=kdcproxy display-name=%{GROUP}
WSGIImportScript /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kdcproxy/__init__.py \
  process-group=kdcproxy application-group=kdcproxy
WSGIScriptAlias /KdcProxy /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/kdcproxy/__init__.py
WSGIScriptReloading Off

<Location "/KdcProxy">
  Satisfy Any
  Order Deny,Allow
  Allow from all
  WSGIProcessGroup kdcproxy
  WSGIApplicationGroup kdcproxy
</Location>

The mod_wsgi module seems to be installed, but still httpd fails to (re)start. Note that it all installs just perfectly with the default command line parameters.

Foreman and Proxy versions¶

Foreman 1.17 (latest), installed from repos configured via https://yum.theforeman.org/releases/1.17/el7/x86_64/foreman-release.rpm

See Also¶

More information may be available from https://community.theforeman.org/t/installer-httpd-fails-for-kdc-proxy-centos-7/8656