Shibboleth newbie question [GishPuppy]

[Cantor, Scott]

A couple of additional points...

On 10/2/13 5:36 AM, "Peter Schober" <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:

>>         <RequestMap>
>>             <Host name="10.0.20.128:8080">

That's invalid. If your port is non-standard, then you need a port="8080"
attribute, but you can't embed it in the hostname.

>><MetadataProvider type="XML" file="C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache
>>Software Foundation/Apache2.2/shibboleth-users/users"/>
>
>This is where you should have loaded SAML metadata about the IdP. It's
>not obvious to me that this file system path is referncing an XML
>*file* containing SAML metadata.
>
>If that is a folder (not a file) containing SAML metadata files use
>"path" instead of "file". "file" is a single file.

Actually they're interchangeable. Using folders instead requires a
different plugin (type="Folder").

-- Scott