new to shib: incommon affiliate or roll-your-own?

[Kevin P. Foote]

Most of this is answered in wiki or on list. 

Start here
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/UnderstandingShibboleth

That gives you the understanding to go forward. :-) 

Quick answers to your 'a' question. In general you will want to run an IdP 
on a separate dedicated host. This is again usually a public facing utility. 
The SP usually lives with the web app it is protecting, either Apache
based or IIS based.

Also do check lists and wiki.. lots of history and info there.

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thanks
  kevin.foote

On Fri, 4 May 2012, Jeff Earickson wrote:

-> Hi,
-> 
-> I'm just starting to look at Shibboleth implementation for our site.
-> Some questions on basic technical
-> implementation:
-> 
-> a) Can the IdP and SP be on a separate server that our other web
-> servers then reference, or does the
-> software have to be installed on any public-facing web server, aka
-> "www.colby.edu"?
-> 
-> b) I have been looking at http://www.incommonfederation.org/affiliate/
-> and wondering about Gluu or
-> Fischer.  Does anybody use thes affiliates?  Happy with them (answer
-> offline if you wish)?  Or do
-> most people roll-your-own Apache/tomcat?
-> 
-> -----------------------------------
-> Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D
-> Senior Server System Administrator
-> Colby College,
-> 4214 Mayflower Hill,
-> Waterville ME, 04901-8842
-> 207-859-4214 (fax 207-859-4186)
-> Eastern Time Zone, USA
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