NativeSPMacInstall, homebrew

[Philip Durbin]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>Can anyone please give me a sense of running Shibboleth SP on Mac?
>>Good idea? Bad idea? Easy? Hard?
>
> I really can't say, I don't run Mac servers.

Me neither. This is strictly for development... for putting Glassfish
(which runs on my Mac and hosts our Java EE app) in front of mod_shib.

> Apple's Apache is definitely not on my list of fun options, their config
> is pretty mangled and annoying to use, but that's personal preference.

Yeah. So it seems.

> Well, you can do that if you prefer, but the supported approach is
> definitely macports. I definitely will not be supporting anything else,
> the port system has addressed the requirements that I have to be able to
> support OS X.

Thanks for clarifying this. I think I'd sooner try the
VirtualBox/Vagrant approach suggested earlier than messing with
MacPorts.

> I certainly have built Apache from source, but I don't believe the macport
> of the SP itself will compile against that because macport can't locate
> the right headers to use unless they're in the port tree or in the system
> tree. It's possible to build only the SP from source, and use macports for
> all libraries.

Unless I misunderstand you, if I'm to travel down the MacPorts road, I
should use Apache httpd from MacPorts as well.

Thanks for all these comments, Scott!

Phil

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