Integrating Nginx and a Shibboleth SP with FastCGI
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The canonical place for this documentation is now the nginx-http-shibboleth custom Nginx module GitHub repository. All updates will be reflected there, and as a result, this page has become severely outdated. Please contribute to that repository!
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With changes in Nginx after version 1.5.4, the auth request module is now built in. This means the following instruction have changed, yet again.
tl;dr: You can have Nginx with Shibboleth. Rebuild Shibboleth with FastCGI support, and recompile Nginx with a custom module. You can now run the Shibboleth FastCGI authorizer and responder applications and successfully …