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1. Integrating Nginx and a Shibboleth SP with FastCGI

   tl;dr: You can have Nginx with Shibboleth. Rebuild Shibboleth with FastCGI support, and recompile Nginx with a custom module: https://bitbucket.org/davidjb/ngx_http_auth_request_module. You can now run the Shibboleth FastCGI authorizer and responder applications and successfully authenticate!

   • Background
     • Cautionary note
   • Install the Shibboleth SP with FastCGI support
   • Nginx ...

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2. Setting up a Shibboleth SP with FastCGI support

   Good news! The Shibboleth SP software features FastCGI authorizer and responder applications for use with your favourite non-Apache and non-IIS web server. Unfortunately, the default distributions don’t come with it built by default. I’m looking into why this is the case, but for now here’s how ...

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3. Shibboleth SP logo.jpg missing from distributions

   Have you recently installed the Shibboleth SP software and found that the error pages the software is generating are missing the Shibboleth logo? If so, it’s because those error pages are attempting to display a logo (typically /shibboleth-sp/logo.jpg by default) but the logo of the Griffin that ...

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4. Switching to Nginx from Cherokee: Techincal Guide

   This is a follow up to a previous post on Switching to Nginx from Cherokee. Read that in case you’re here and haven’t already.

   All information here on a server level is related to RHEL 6. You will need to change some instructions for Debian based systems. CentOS ...

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5. Switching to Nginx from Cherokee: Why

   After a switching away from Apache some time ago, our primary web server had been running Cherokee for quite a while - since September 2011, in fact, looking back at the configuration history. More recently, however, I’ve switched us again. This time to Nginx - with impressive improvements in performance and ...

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6. Serving uWSGI Apps on a Sub-directory with Nginx

   Serving up uWSGI application using Nginx is super-simple and is configured effectively like a standard reverse proxy_pass. However, the documentation isn’t entirely clear exactly how one can correctly serve an application against a sub-directory — and have the application know its correct path such that it can create correct URLs ...

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7. New Blog, Goodbye Wordpress

   Yes, I’m a little ashamed that I did used to run Wordpress as my blog and my website. Being a Python developer that I am, it’s not exactly good form, nor is it good for one’s sanity to have to keep updating something every few days with ...

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8. Configuring GTK/Gnome toolbar icon sizes and labels (Ubuntu 12.10+ and more)

   One major annoyance (first-world, clearly) for me having upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 is that my GTK toolbar icons are very large (32x32 pixels) and have labels on them. This takes up a decent amount of screen real estate in applications like gedit, Rhythmbox, and many others — effectively anything that ...

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9. Virtualenv being ignored by setuptools/Distribute/easy_install

   This one couldn’t be simpler, but it’s worth noting all the same.  I’ve just experienced a situation where a virtualenv  was being completely ignored by all tools even though it was absolutely activated via source bin/activate.

   The answer was to blow away the lib directory within ...

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