Installation Guides

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for installing Shibboleth on a server are:

  • accurate network time
  • SSL enabled web server

Installation Guides

The Shibboleth wiki has guides for installing the Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) software onto different operating systems.

Note:  Shibboleth Service Provider v3.x has now been released (Aug 2018).  There is a newer version of the Shibboleth2.xml file that is for installations of SP3.x  Confusingly it's still called Shibboleth2.xml.

Configuration Files

Example of the configuration file which you'll need to edit is:

MSWord
Shibboleth2.xml (Shibboleth SP 3.x) MSWord 5Kb

/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml (UNIX)

c:\opt\shibboleth\etc\shibboleth\shibboleth2.xml (Windows)

Replace serviceaddress with your service name and rename file to shibboleth2.xml

MSWord
attribute-map.xml MSWord 5Kb

/etc/shibboleth/attribute-map.xml (UNIX)

c:\opt\shibboleth\etc\shibboleth\attribute-map.xml (Windows)