AW: SP setup: Frontend NGINX, backend Apache w/ shibd ?

[Peter Schober]

Arnaud Houdelette-Langlois <arnaud.houdelette at normandie-univ.fr> [2024-10-23 16:36 CEST]:
> I do not know which distro you use, but debian packages of shibd do support
> FastCGI (at least with the ngx_http_shibboleth_module)
> 
> However you’ll have to rebuild nginx  (but it is much easier) …

As to having to rebuild nginx for this I notice this here:
https://github.com/nginx-shib/nginx-http-shibboleth?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

> The easiest way to obtain a packaged version of this module is to
> use the pkg-oss tool from Nginx, which provides for packaging of
> dynamic modules for installation alongside the official releases of
> Nginx from the main repositories and helps avoid the need to compile
> Nginx by hand.

AFAIU that means you couldn't use such dynamic modules wih the Nginx
packages provided by Debian but hopefully they would work with the
Nginx packages for Debian as provided by Nginx?
https://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#Debian
(Not sure that's included in the intended meaning of "official
releases of Nginx from the main repositories" above?)

HTH,
-peter