Nginx support

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

"Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> writes:

>> Is there planned support / roadmap for native Nginx support for Shibboleth
>> SP?
>
> I haven't reviewed the current state of things, I don't know what's
> involved at this point, and their documentation was horrible when I
> looked at it a few years ago.
/../
> I don't remember if it was nginx or something else, but there was
> something that had limited FastCGI support and was patched to add in
> the missing support to get the SP to work with it. If that's feasible,
> that's much more attractive than me adding more code I don't have time
> to maintain.

Hello Scott,
Yes, this has been done, by David Beitey.

Initial nginx ML request:
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,238523,238523

David Beitey's blog:
1. Initial support:
http://davidjb.com/blog/2013/04/integrating-nginx-and-a-shibboleth-sp-with-fastcgi/
2. Updated support:
http://davidjb.com/blog/2014/05/nginx-with-shibboleth-fastcgi-authorizer-support-updated-to-16/

Module put up on github:
https://github.com/nginx-shib/nginx-http-shibboleth

Shibboleth ML reference to above:
http://shibboleth.1660669.n2.nabble.com/Nginx-note-td7588765.html

Note there is also a github page for custom nginx changes for the above:
https://github.com/jcu-eresearch/nginx-custom-build/blob/master/CHANGES.rst

Regards,
Gernot Hassenpflug
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Asahi Net, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan