Installing XAMPP on 64bit RHEL

Today I had to install Apache on 64bit RHEL mahine.
Since my machines did't have compiler installed, I got a binary distribution (rpm) and tried install hoping it would be a quick fix.

And the reponse I got was:

[root@localhost apache]# rpm -ivh httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64.rpm

warning: httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 751d7f27 error: Failed dependencies:
apr >= 1.2.0 is needed by httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64
apr-util >= 1.2.0 is needed by httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64
libapr-1.so.0()(64bit) is needed by httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64
libaprutil-1.so.0()(64bit) is needed by httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64
libcrypto.so.4()(64bit) is needed by httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64
liblber-2.2.so.7()(64bit) is needed by httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64
libldap-2.2.so.7()(64bit) is needed by httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64
libpq.so.3()(64bit) is needed by httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64
libssl.so.4()(64bit) is needed by httpd-2.2.2-1.x86_64

I googled and got some information from this blog
I went ahead and downloaded XAMPP package for linux, installed and ran it and what I got was:

[root@localhost lampp]# ./lampp start
XAMPP is currently only availably as 32 bit application. Please use a 32 bit compatibility library for your system.

Essentially, it was saying lampp was meant for only 32bit applications and my OS was 64bit,
to be precise Linux 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 16:34:19 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

searching on the web I could only find workarounds for ubuntu and not anything for RHEL.

The workaround for RHEL was to commented out the 64bit check in the lampp executable script as:

=================
# XAMPP is currently 32 bit only
#case `uname -m` in
# *_64)
# if /opt/lampp/bin/php -v > /dev/null 2>&1
# then
# :
# else
# $de && echo "XAMPP gibt es zur Zeit nur als 32-Bit Applikation. Bitte verwende eine 32-Bit Kompatibilitaetsbibliothek fuer Dein System."
# $de || echo "XAMPP is currently only availably as 32 bit application. Please use a 32 bit compatibility library for your system."
# exit
# fi
# ;;
#esac
================

Once that is done, I had no issues in starting my Apache, Mysql and PHP engines.

[root@localhost lampp]# ./lampp start
Starting XAMPP for Linux 1.7.1...
XAMPP: Starting Apache with SSL (and PHP5)...
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...
XAMPP for Linux started.

WebLogic authentication with Siteminder

We have encountered this issue while setting up siteminder on weblogic 9.2
Once the request is authenticated through policy server/siteminder, weblogic would ask for login again.

This is because, for WebLogic Server versions 9.2 and later, client requests that use HTTP BASIC authentication must pass WebLogic Server authentication, even if access control is not enabled on the target resource.

The corresponding configMbean flag is enforce-valid-basic-auth-credentials and default is "true".
We would have to set this to "false" to disable default weblogic authentication.
For some reason, this does not seem to be configurable through Admin console.
We would have to edit config.xml as:

Link to BEA docs