Configuring Shibboleth SP 2 on CentOS to the ukfederation w/ Godaddy certs

Part 2. Shibboleth Config (6 hours)

[bash] cd /etc/shibboleth wget http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation.pem wget http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml [/bash]

Edit shibboleth2.xml

Replace all instances of sp.example.org with your Entity ID ie sp.yourdomain.com

Search for ApplicationDefaults

Add homeURL=”https://sp.domainz.com/ahomeurl” under entityID - homeURL is the first url of the resource if none is specified.

Search for <sessions

Before the default example (Reading Default example directs to a speci… “ Insert:

[bash] [/bash]

Search for exportLocation

Under exportLocation replace http://localhost with https://localhost

Replace all instances of root@localhost with the technical support email address

Search for MetadataProvider

This bit gets messy so pay close attention…..

After the line reading Insert

[bash] <MetadataProvider type=”XML”

uri=”http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml”

backingFilePath=”/etc/shibboleth/ukfederation-metadata.xml” reloadInterval=”14400”>

</MetadataProvider> [/bash]

Search for the line Delete it or comment it out.

Directly below it paste the following:

/etc/shibboleth/sp.key /etc/shibboleth/sp.crt

Don’t forget to replace yourpassword with your key password if you have set one!

For now we are done in shibboleth2.xml

Run ./keygen.sh to generate your new key pair [bash] mv sp-key.pem sp.key mv sp-cert.pem sp.crt [/bash]

Now we must configure Apache for shibboleth