• Configuring Apache for Shibboleth on CentOS to the ukfederation w/ Godaddy certs

    Date: 2009.10.27 | Category: certificates, csr, godaddy, janet, key, openssl, shibboleth, ukfederation

    Part 3. Apache config. (1 hour)

    cd /etc/shibboleth
openssl genrsa -des3 -out external.key 2048
openssl req -new -key external.key -out external.csr

    The above will create a CSR request for your resource, when asked what the common name is enter something like shib.yourdomain.com - DO NOT use sp.yourdomain.com or the same common name as you used to register your SP!

    Edit the CSR and copy its contents into clipboard. Then login to your godaddy hosting account and paste the CSR request into your certificate request. 

    Godaddy will do their thing then get back to you with a CRT a few files usually within 24 hours.
    

    When they get back to you with the files copy or download them the files to /etc/shibboleth
    

    Rename shib.yourdomain.com.crt to external.crt
    Rename gd_bundle.crt to external_int.crt and place it in /etc/shibboleth
    

    

     

    Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
    Replace
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.key
    With
     SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/shibboleth/external.key
    Replace
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/private/localhost.crt

    With
    SSLCertificateFile /etc/shibboleth/external.crt
    Under SSLCertificateKeyFile paste SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/shibboleth/external_int.crt
     
     
    Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
     
    Replace
     UseCanonicalName Off
    With
     UseCanonicalName On
    Find the line beginning with ServerName
    Comment it out
    Below it type ServerName shib.yourdomain.com:80

    /usr/sbin/apachectl restart
    

    /usr/sbin/apachectl start
    

    The above commands will restart Apache or start it if it hasn't already been started
    

    Edit  /etc/sysconfig/iptables & above all REJECT rules paste:
     
    -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
    -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
    -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8443 -j ACCEPT
    /sbin/service iptables restart
    

    If everything restarts without any errors then:
    Continue to the testing phase

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