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 There is a newer version of the Shibboleth2.xml file that is for installations of SP3.x Confusingly it's still called Shibboleth2.xml.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
Examples of the two configuration files which you'll need to edit are:
shibboleth2.xml (Shibboleth SP 2.x) MSWord 2Kb
/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml (UNIX)
c:\opt\shibboleth\etc\shibboleth\shibboleth2.xml (Windows)
Replace serviceaddress with your service name.
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
attribute-map.xml MSWord 5Kb
/etc/shibboleth/attribute-map.xml (UNIX)
c:\opt\shibboleth\etc\shibboleth\attribute-map.xml (Windows)