# Questions on Building a Developmental AWX Env

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/questions-on-building-a-developmental-awx-env/39584>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** rhel, ansible-project, awx\
**Created:** [January 14, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/questions-on-building-a-developmental-awx-env/39584 "2025-01-14T04:15:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Phil\_Duncan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/phil_duncan/32/7197_2.png) [@Phil\_Duncan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Phil_Duncan)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/questions-on-building-a-developmental-awx-env/39584/1 "2025-01-14T04:15:38Z")

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Greetings,

I have some questions on standing up an awx development environment on a RHEL system.

I have followed the build steps here:

> <https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/tools/docker-compose/README.md>

An I am able to navigate to the development awx instance fine, the only thing is the developmental instance looks complete different than the awx-instance I deploy using the awx-operator.

After I run the commands to start the developmental awx-instance, and I try to connect to if via web browser at [https://localhost:8043](https://localhost:8043), I am to login fine but redirected to [https://10.0.0.137:8043/overview](https://10.0.0.137:8043/overview).

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/b/b6d9bd93df93187cc9e6feb32cc53ea16e9792d1.png)

In comparison to the awx-instance deployed by the awx-operator that is running version: AWX 24.6.0. When I login to that instance, I can see the url as [https://hostname/#/home](https://hostname/#/home).

I am trying to find any tips, on how to get my developmental environment configured the same way that awx-operator deploys the awx image.

The reason I am looking to get my environment configured this way, is I am trying to configure a feature to add SAML login to the [https://hostname/api/login/?next=/api/v2/](https://hostname/api/login/?next=/api/v2/) page once the SAML backend is enabled, and I can’t test that out in my developmental awx environment because it seems as if ALL the additional social auth sources have been removed.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/b/b6d9bd93df93187cc9e6feb32cc53ea16e9792d1.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/6/65a08260080f5e8d26533fde856e31f4e7cf1106.png)

Only the http basic auth is shown, and I don’t see any way to add additional auth sources, primarily the SAML auth source.

In my awx-instance that was using the operator, if I navigate to [https://localhost/ui\_next/access/authentication](https://localhost/ui_next/access/authentication) I see the list of auth sources populated correctly.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/c/cc34f72a68b89c48a453279ec16e0e883296937e.png)

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Phil Duncan

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**Author:** ![kurokobo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/kurokobo/32/182_2.png) [@kurokobo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/kurokobo)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/questions-on-building-a-developmental-awx-env/39584/2 "2025-01-14T16:00:52Z")

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Related to:

> [@Ansible AWX 24.6.1 version - Authentication Methods](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-awx-24-6-1-version-authentication-methods/39552/5):
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> During the process of building the Docker image for AWX version 24.6.1, make sdist is executed: As a result, it is likely that the latest main branch of ansible-ui has been cloned, built and included as the UI. Since the latest ansible-ui is based on an unreleased plaggable architecture, I believe that various authentication methods that should exist in version 24.6.1 are hidden. The Makefile and Dockerfile are complex, so I can’t provide a simple workaround immediately, but I suspect the…