Installation Guide

INSTALLATION MANUAL DISCLAIMER:The information contained in this manual is subject to change by INFED Team without any prior notice.
INFED gives no warranty of any kind whatsoever, either explicitly or implicitly. It is created for the purpose of assisting the Institution
in more easily adopting the use of the INFED.  Make clear that the guidance are offered without warranty, and disclaiming liability for 
damages resulting from using the guide.

Shibboleth Identity Provider (IdP) - Installation Guide

For the Shibboleth IdP version 4, INFED recommends relying on an enterprise-grade Linux distribution with long term support: specifically, either Ubuntu Server LTS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS.

As per above information, the sections below will configure the IdP with the following parameters:

  • the name of the University/Institute is yourdomain.ac.in
  • the IdP URL idp.yourdomain.ac.in
  • the IdP entityID https://idp.yourdomain.ac.in/idp/shibboleth
  • Federation metadata available from http:// parichay.inflibnet.ac.in/metadata/infed.xml and https://parichay.inflibnet.ac.in/metadata/interfederation_sp.xml