initial set up question

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/13/12 7:39 PM, "Jose Reyes" <jreyes at egmail.com> wrote:
>
>nodame is not the name of the site i want to protect with sp, it's the
>hostname of the machine which hosts multiple virtual hosts.

Web servers do not care what their physical host is, they configure
themselves with host information. The node identity data comes directly
from the OS and reflects the OS hostname settings. The key material comes
directly from what the keygen script embedded in the credentials at
install time and is also irrelevant to web server or entity naming.

>I changed the hostname of the machine to match the url of the site I
>want to protect but even after restarging shibboleth those settings
>didn't change.

Then you didn't change anything, nor do you need to.

> Is that fact going to cause problems? If so how do i go
>about changing it? Is having multiple virtual hosts on the machines
>going to cause trouble if I jut want to protect one of the sites?

Please read the documentation, particularly:

NativeSPApplicationModel
NativeSPProtectContent

-- Scott