(Quick Reference)

2 Pre-configuration

External Prerequisites

You will need to have the following components in-place and functioning before you can successfully use this plugin.

Those components are

• Apache
• installed and configured with SSL certificates and listening on port 443
• Shibboleth Native SP
• Installed, and configured to use at least one IdP to authenticate against.
• mod_shib
• Installed and configured so all of your web applications pass through the Shibboleth SP before apache passes the request on to your servlet container
• mod_jk
• Installed and configured to pass the required URLs to your servlet container. This also needs to be configured to expose all of the attributes you need to the servlet container.
• Tomcat (or some other servlet container)
• Installed and configured to use the authentication passed to is by Apache
• Your application, compiled and deployed as a WAR

Reference configuration instructions for an Ubuntu based setup are available here.

More background information is available on the Internet2 Shibboleth Wiki.