How does apache module locate the shibd server

[Ben Marsh]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Christopher Bongaarts <cab at umn.edu> wrote:

> On 2/12/2014 1:51 PM, Ben Marsh wrote:
> > We are trying to set up shibboleth authentication on linux for apache
> > web servers that are load balanced.  We are putting the shibd on a
> > seperate server.  How does the apache module know where the shibd
> > process is on the network?
>
> In shibboleth2.xml:
>
> https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPListener
>
> It's omitted in the default config file, which causes it use the default
> unix socket listener.  If you run shibd on a remote host, you'll need to
> use the TCP listener instead.
>
>

So we do already have:
  <TCPListener address="10.0.0.182" port="12345" acl="10.0.0.40 10.0.0.41"/>

but it seems that is just for configuring the shibd process on the shibd
server.  How do we tell apache that shibd is running on 10.0.0.182?  Is the
apache module reading /etc/shibboleth2.xml too?
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