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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.
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.
--- lifetime is the maximum duration in --- 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
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. |
Create signing key and encryption key (Ubuntu users)
Check if you have sp-signing-cert.pem and sp-encrypt-cert.pem in /etc/shibboleth directory. If they are not there, generate them.
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shib-keygen -n sp-signing -h yourServername -y 10 (your servername will be the CN of the certificate) shib-keygen -n sp-encrypt -h yourServername -y 10 |
Shibboleth Configuration Check
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In the command line, execute the following command to see whether the Shibboleth Service Provider can load the default configuration:
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