Nginx note

[Kevin P. Foote]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, davidjb wrote:

> Cantor, Scott E. wrote
>> You're welcome to add anything you like to our wiki about it.
>
> Ah, I didn't realise the wiki was open for contributions.  Also didn't
> realise my institutional credentials would work as well - nice.
>
> The canonical place for this documentation is now at
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Integrating+Nginx+and+a+Shibboleth+SP+with+FastCGI
>
>
>
> Cantor, Scott E. wrote
>> On Windows, I do the build by default now. On Linux, the packages can only
>> include features that depend on packages included with the OS.
>>
>> I don't think macports has a fastcgi port, but I haven't looked in a
>> while.
>>
>> I don't know specifically which platform you mean though.
>
> The specific platform I'm using is RHEL6, x86_64.
>
> My thought was whether FastCGI-enabled Shibboleth SP Linux/EL packages could
> be built along side the standard packages.  Whilst  FastCGI packages aren't
> a default inclusion in EL repositories, having a requirement of using the
> custom build that the user needs to install the fcgi package first seems
> reasonable.  I'm open to ideas here -- I'm keen to avoid needing to manually
> rebuild the Shibboleth SP for each new version.

Just a thought..

Does the nginx/fcgi via epel get you any closer to maintaining a packagable
solution?

Even if you have to require epel to use the shib-sp/nginx/fcgi combo I
think that would be very reasonable for any given installer to manage.

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  kevin.foote