Shibboleth SPs on OpenShift

[Cantor, Scott]

On 3/16/16, 11:50 AM, "users on behalf of Peter Schober" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:



>* Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> [2016-03-16 15:14]:
>> The SP RPM *packages* assume you're using the RH-supplied Apache,
>> and that runs as root. The SP doesn't really care, but it installs
>> itself into that httpd environment, and is built specifically
>> against it.
>
>Sure, but running httpd on another port and as another user is just
>httpd configuration, so does not affect the Shib SP at all.

No, it doesn't, but building a module against one Apache doesn't guarantee it will work with another, even the same version. I won't say it wouldn't work, but I wouldn't count on it either. An rpmbuild --rebuild of the SRPM against the actual target environment is a more reliable way to go.

-- Scott