The Shibboleth V2 IdP and SP software have reached End of Life and are no longer supported. This documentation is available for historical purposes only. See the IDP v4 and SP v3 wiki spaces for current documentation on the supported versions.

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Windows Installation

The native Shibboleth SP is available for Windows with modules for all the supported web servers. There is an installer available that works fairly well most of the time, although it may act up when using it to upgrade existing installation.

It is recommended that you install the software to C:\opt\shibboleth-sp if possible. The installer may not default to this drive letter.

Install for IIS 5
Install for IIS 6
Install for Apache

It's also possible (though not simple) to build the SP and its dependencies from source using Visual Studio 2005.

Build from Source

Once installation is complete, you'll need to run the Shibboleth daemon, shibd, at all times. shibd is a console application that is installed as a Windows service.

  • To run the process in console mode for testing or to diagnose major problems, supply a -console parameter when running it.
  • If shibd won't start, use the -check option from the command line to echo most logging information to the console for debugging.

Other parameters can be used to install (or remove) shibd from the service database and subsequent control is generally via the Service Control Manager applet.

Monitoring the Service

Newer versions of Windows support automatic restart of failed services. We suggest using this feature to restart shibd when it fails. Although stability is good, maximum reliability will be achieved by monitoring the process.

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