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Download our sample shibboleth2.xml and replace your /etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml with downloaded file. Open shibboleth2.xml in a text editor.

• Update SP entityID:

 Find  Search <ApplicationDefaults entityID="https://mysite.cit.cornell.edu/shibboleth"... >.  EntityID is the  Unique identifier for your SP. Cornell Shibboleth Identity Provider(IDP) provides service to many applications. This entityID will help Cornell IDP to identify your SP. We recommend you follow shibboleth convention named it "https://xxx/shibboleth". It's better not include space or special characters in it( / and : are fine). One SP can server multiple sites in your Apache so it does not necessarily equate to the hostname(s) at which your service runs. 

• Update SP session:
  Search <Sessions lifetime="28800" timeout="3600" ...>

          — lifetime is the maximum duration in seconds that a session maintained by the SP will be valid.The settings shown in the example will set your Shibboleth session lifetime to 28800 (8 hours).

          — timeout is the maximum inactivity allowed between requests in a session maintained by the SP. The settings shown in the example will set your Shibboleth session timeout to 3600 (1 hour).

           — postData="ss:mem" postTemplate="postTemplate.html"

Add it to <Session ..> if your website has web form. Web form POST data will be saved in the Shibboleth memory cache rather than discarded when a user requires authentication after filling out a web form. "postTemplate.html" is located in /etc/shibboleth directory. Modify it to meet your website's style.

More information: https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SP3/Sessions

• Update the support contact: 

Find  Search < Errors supportContact ="root@localhost"  helpLocation ="/about.html" styleSheet ="/shibboleth-sp/main.css"  /> . Change the email address to your application's support email address. Change the helpLocation to your application's help page.

• Update IDP info information if you are configuring a test/dev site( skip this if you would like to use production IDP for your test/dev site)

Find Search <SSO entityID=" https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth ">.Replace our production IDP's entityID with test IDP's entityID: https://shibidp-test.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth

Find Search <MetadataProvider ... url=" https://shibidp.cit.cornell.edu/idp/shibboleth " ..>. This is production IDP's metadata url. Comment out this block for your test site. Then un-comment MetadataProvider for Cornell test IDP.

• Check if you have sp-signing-cert.pem and sp-encrypt-cert.pem in /etc/shibboleth directory. If they are not there, generate them.
  

  Code Block
  title generate a 10 year signing key
  shib-keygen -n sp-signing -h yourServername -y 10 (your servername will be the CN of the certificate)

  Code Block
  title generate a 10 year encryption key
  shib-keygen -n sp-encrypt -h yourServername -y 10

  Update timeout if needed:
  In <Sessions lifetime="28800" timeout="3600>, maximum duration that a session maintained by the SP is set to 28800 seconds( 8 hours ), inactivity timeout is set to 3600 seconds( 1 hour ). You can modify them to meet your website's requirement.
  Detail information of timeout:https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SP3/Sessions