Setup Shibboleth SP to work with Local IIS Installation
I was recently asked to get a Shibboleth SP setup to work with a Local version of IIS like one that is included in Windows XP Professional. The users were doing Microsoft .Net programming and wanted to do some Shibboleth SP Testing.
I followed the installation instruction for Installing Shibboleth SP on IIS6 . The installation went as described here with a few modifications.
When setting up your shibboleth2.xml file, leave the hostname to sp.example.org. It appears that the Shibboleth NSAPI filter does not recognize the local computer name, but says that all requests are being handled by sp.example.org. To trick this out go to the host file on your computer, usually located at c:\windows\system32\etc\hosts and add the following line.
127.0.0.1 sp.example.orgThis will make all url calls made on your local computer to sp.example.org work.
