Hostnames fake & EntitiesID

[Rainer Hoerbe]

> 1- What is a good detailed approach to fake 2 hostnames in the same machine?

Using DNS there is the CNAME record. /etc/hosts provides the option to have multiple names for a single IP-address

> 2- Is it possible to simply use localhost for both SP and IdP in the same machine and get them communicate?
> I mean using for example https://localhost/IDP for IDP entityID and https://localhost/SP for SP entityID in configurations.

The shibboleth installer complains about "localhost" and needs a FQHN. Patching the install script is one option, setting up fully qualified alias names like idp.test.local is an alternative.

In my test environment I set up a VM with a secondary interface with separate IP-addresses (allows for IP-based SSL vHosts), so the VM is independend from any DHCP-addresses of my development system.


- Rainer Hörbe
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