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Summary

The following steps should be followed to migrate a Shibboleth service provider (web server application) from Shibboleth 1.3 to 2.x:

• Back up old configuration files.
• Install Shibboleth SP 2.x.
• Configure the SP software.
• Test the SP software.
• Adapt the web application and server configurations as necessary.
• Test the web application.

Back up old configuration files

If you install from RPM (strongly recommended), the configuration files, error pages, certificates, etc., in the $PREFIX/etc/shibboleth directory should be saved when you install the Shibboleth 2 SP RPMs. But we still recommend making a copy of the /etc/shibboleth directory for safety.

Install Shibboleth SP 2.x

We strongly recommend that you download and install the 2.x SP RPMs from the Internet2 downloads site.

Configure the SP software

The quickest way to get started is to copy the following files from the Touchstone locker (/mit/touchstone/config/shibboleth2-sp) into /etc/shibboleth:

• attribute-map.xml
• gen-shib2.sh
• shibboleth2.xml.in

Then run the gen-shib2.sh script, and answer the prompts, to generate shibboleth2.xml. For example:

1. cd /etc/shibboleth
2. cp /mit/touchstone/config/shibboleth2-sp/* .
3. sh gen-shib2.sh