How To Install mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 is Apache module to retrieve additional information about the

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mod_lookup_identity.x86_64`

mod_lookup_identity can retrieve additional pieces of information about user authenticated in Apache httpd server and store these values in notes/environment variables to be consumed by web applications. Use of REMOTE_USER_* environment variables is recommended.

We can use yum to install mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mod_lookup_identity.x86_64.

Install mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mod_lookup_identity.x86_64

How To Uninstall mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mod_lookup_identity.x86_64

mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/httpd/conf.d/lookup_identity.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/55-lookup_identity.conf
/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_lookup_identity.so
/usr/share/doc/mod_lookup_identity-1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/mod_lookup_identity-1.0.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/mod_lookup_identity-1.0.0/README

References

mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_lookup_identity.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.