Shibboleth Developers

[Chad La Joie <>]

Deploy just means to install, configure, and make available for use.  So 
you deploy IdPs just like you deploy services that use the service provider.

Martina Tedford wrote:
> Thanks for getting back to me. When you say deploy, I'm not quite sure what 
> you mean, do you mean we would be acting as a service provider - this would 
> not be the case. We would only be using the windows 20003 x64 server for the 
> IDP.
>  
>  
> Many Thanks
>  
> Martina
>  
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Chad La Joie 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Thu 12/10/2006 11:14
> To: 
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> Subject: Re: Shibboleth IDP on windows 2003 x64
>
>
>
> The first question is whether you intended to deploy the 64 bit version
> of Windows.  If not then the answer is yes, this will work, no problem.
>   Otherwise....
>
> The IdP is just a Java webapp; the normal deployment stack being a JVM,
> Apache webserver, and Tomcat.  I know that Sun has JVMs for 64-bit Win
> 2003.  Apache, however, does not.  So you'd need to consider running
> Tomcat behind IIS, or in a standalone mode.  Running behind IIS is the
> easiest and if you take a look at the user list archives for Sept and
> Oct you'll see some traffic on doing that.
>
>
>  wrote:
> > Has anyone installed shibboleth IDP on windows server 2003 x64.
> >
> > We are contemplating purchasing a Fujitsu Xeon dual core processor, which is 
> > 64 bit. We were then planning to put windows 2003 x64 on the server, but are 
> > a little concerned that the shibboleth IDP software will not work.
> >
> > I would appreciate it if anyone could give me an update on how they 
> > progressed if they used the above solution or on lack of progression if this 
> > was the case.
> >
> > Many Thanks
> >
> > Martina
>
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