Is it possible to install Shibboleth SP on its own server? - apache

Is it possible to install the Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) on a different machine than the web application? I have the SP on the same server as IIS and my web application, and I'd like to move the SP to a separate server.

I can't see any relation between your question and answer.
The answer is YES, you can install Shibboleth SP on something other than IIS
general installation notes
Apache for windows (I believe that you need something for that OS)
All Windows installations (including IIS 5,6,7 and Apache)
All Linux tutorials (look for your system in subpages)
Mac
Install Shibboleth to protect Java Servlets
Hope that will help any other knowledge seeker.

After take a look how to separate SP server from Web Server.
I found this link.
According to this site, we have to create the glue ourselves
Shibboleth doesn't do this for us.

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500 internal server error - Hosting nopCommerce 4.0 on Godaddy with Windows Plesk (not VPS) Account

I know how to install and setup nopCommerce.
However this is specific to hosting it on Godaddy Windows Plesk account, I have searched, looked and read many threads, documents on nopCommerce 4.0 and hosting it or installing it. However I am unable to successfully install nopCommerce 4.0 on Godaddy Windows Plesk (not VPS) Hosting.
I get 500 internal server error, looks like .NET Core is not supported on Windows Plesk hosting on Godaddy, on VPS hosting it works.
So is any one able to successfully do it on Plesk?
As mentioned in my comment above:
You will need .net framework 4.61+ and .net core 2.0+ runtime to successfully run nopCommerce 4.0.
And as mentioned by you
GoDaddy with Plesk does not support .NET Core yet.
See https://in.godaddy.com/help/software-versions-on-hosting-accounts-897
In .net core, iis is not really used as a web service, its just use to point users to application. Application is a exe file so actually windows will run it, so i dont think that its a issue of plex or something like that.
I hade same error for nop4 on vps, but i cant tell you any advice if you don't check logs.
Try see the logs,application set logs automatically as a text file.
You may solve when check that file or create another question so we can help you and others who had the same error

SSO siteminder configurations to work on IIS7 integrated mode with MVC4 app

I am working on a MVC4 application on IIS7 Windows 2008 R2 server and trying to integrate SSO siteminder with my application. However I am not able to find exact documentaiton around how to do so. I am looking for configeration settings for both server and web.config of my application. I am running my application in integrated mode. Siteminder is already configured on server, i need server settings just to verify.
I can see CASiteMinderWebAgentHandler and CASiteMinderWebAgentHandler-32 in modules on applicationHost.config on server.
I am not sure what to put in web.config of my app to make it work.
Please let me know in case you need any other information. I have been searching about it for couple of days now but nowhere I have found exact doucmentation. Please help. Any help will be highly appreciated.

IBM Websphere plugin issue - iisWASPlugin_http.dll Out-of-process ISAPI extension request failed

I attempts to setup IIS (version 6.0, windows 2003 server) sit in front of IBM WAS server so that it can route all specific traffic to IBM WebSphere application server. I've things setup on both UAT and pre-production IIS web server and its works just fine. The problem happens now, however, only in production server. I investigated the websphere plugin logs (defined in plugin-cfg.xml) and found the following errors
iisWASPlugin_http.dll Out-of-process ISAPI extension request failed.
Tried google the solution but no luck.
Setup procedures is summarized below
Install IBM Installation Manager
Install Web Server Plug-ins for IBM WebSphere Application Server and Version 8.5.0.0 through IBM Installation Manager
Copy Plugin-cfg.xml, Plugin-key.db, Plugin-key.sth from WAS to web server.
Configurate IIS web site - create virtual directory named sePlugins, Add ISAPI filter with iisWASPlugin_http.dl, add Web service extension
Create plugin-cfg.loc, paste the full path of plugin-cfg.xml to plugin-cfg.loc
The procedures above already working in UAT and pre-production environment.
Details setup procedures is exactly the same as the url below
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.websphere.express.doc%2Finfo%2Fexp%2Fae%2Ftins_manualWebIIS.html
(Refer to "Configure IIS Version 6.0." section)
Note: IIS have "IIS 5.0 isolation mode" turned on.
Any help / hints is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards.
The error gone after a server reboot...

Installing Trac as a Windows Service on Windows Server 2008

As the title suggests, I'm trying to install Trac as a Windows Service on Windows Server 2008. I've looked into the instructions at Installing Trac as a Windows Service. Out of the different options given there, I would prefer an Option 1 like approach which uses some Windows utilities instead of installing additional software but the instructions seem a bit outdated for Windows Server 2008 as instsrv.exe and srvany.exe are not available for Server 2008. There is a suggestion to use winserv.exe but I can't find it anywhere and the suggested Google search does not provide any credible results.
Is there a way to use the sc Windows utility to install Trac as a service? Has anyone tried this?
Update: I tried using sc but that does not work. sc only interacts with programs developed as Windows Service Applications so they have hooks to interact with sc.
I could solve this problem using winserv.exe, that can be downloaded from this tutorial page: http://wiki.go-redrock.com/wiki/TechAsService
Once you get the binary file run:
"C:\path\to\winserv.exe" install tracd -displayname "tracd" -start auto "C:\path\to\python.exe" c:\path\to\python\scripts\tracd-script.py <your tracd parameters>
net start tracd
Hope you can solve your problem like I did!
If you just want to easily install Trac on a Windows server, I can recommend Bitnami Trac Stack to you. It comes as 2 services, one for Apache web server running Trac as python module and one for SVN.
Are you restricted to using tracd to host your Trac installation? If you use a real web server, this is typically a bit easier. Web servers like IIS and Apache typically install themselves as a service. If you set up something other than tracd to serve up your Trac site, it will most likely run as a service by default. In general, you'll have a better experience using a full-featured web server like Apache instead of the minimalistic tracd.

LDAP test environment

what's the best way to develop with ldap without having the connection to the productive ldap server. Can you recommend some software?
Thanks
I'd say a test instance of OpenLDAP :)
If you're more into the Microsoft space, you could also check out:
Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
which is a Windows service based subset of the full AD. You can spin up multiple instances of AD LDS and since it's a Windows service, you can also turn it off when no longer needed.
It depends on what kind of LDAP server you have in production. Usually it's a question "AD or not AD?"
If your productions server is AD then it would be either virtual machine with a domain controller or a local instance of AD LDS (formerly ADAM).
If your production server is a generic LDAP server then there is a wide set of options. These days I would use a virtual machine with any Linux and OpenLDAP or/and Fedora Directory Server, or a local instance(s) of ApacheDS or OpenDS.
If you do not want to install/host/configure a Microsoft Server with Active Directory, you can use the following for LDAP testing purposes:
https://documize.github.io/ad-ldap-test-server/
Try
https://github.com/Upekshe/simple-ldap-server
Its running a nodejs server, highly configurable, supports both ldap and ldaps
Dokerized version
https://hub.docker.com/r/upekshejay/simple-ldap-test-server