Shibboleth IIS install questions

[Peter Schober]

* Craig Caughlin <craigcaughlin at gmail.com> [2014-01-26 15:03]:
> 1.) Does it pose much of a configuration and/or maintenance challenge to
> install Shibboleth to: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\shibboleth rather than the
> default location C:\opt (which seems really odd to me)? I see it prompts
> you to choose an install path when you run the software.

Shibboleth is server software, not a bunch of HTML files.
So assuming \inetpub\wwwroot\ means what its name implies to me
(i.e., a place where you expose local files to the network by means of
a web server) that does not seem a sensible place to put server
software modules.

> 2.) Can Shibboleth peacefully co-exist on a server that hosts
> multiple other websites as well?

Yes.
-peter