Remote IdP not responding?

[Christopher Bongaarts]

On 7/1/2013 7:10 PM, Roger Jagoda wrote:
> The only thing remaining is the Session initiation. We protect a page
> on our side (SP) and trigger the Shibboleth session with the usual
> vhost configuration:
>
> <Location /secure/protected.php>
>     AuthType shibboleth
>     ShibRequireSession On
>     require valid-user
>     ShibUseHeaders On
> </Location>
>
>
> What is the best way of forcing the redirection to the appropriate
> URL.

Apologies if this was already answered in a disconnected part of the 
thread....

Add this line to your <Location> block:

ShibRequestSetting entityID https://shibboleth.testdb.idp2.edu

The SP will generate the necessary redirects and SAML requests for you.

References:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPContentSettings
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPApacheConfig

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