There Multiple SPs on same apache vhost By default the helper scripts mentioned above use some default values like file names and local hostname. So in case you need multiple SPs within a single apache web service, we’ll need to generate key pairs and metadata for each of them and use more specific settings for […]
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I once started protecting web sites using mod_auth_mellon. Back then it seemed much easier to implement it that way, however shibboleth / mod_shib is the default implementation and therefore seems to be the better choice on the long run. For a basic introduction have a look here. Existing mellon config In this example we’ll change […]
Docker hub recently announced an upcoming request limit to their registry. So in order to reduce the amount of requests issued there, the idea of a caching proxy solution comes to mind. Possible solutions Fortunately there are some projects already working on that problem. However there are different approaches. Some of the projects I found […]
Till now I was mainly using mod_auth_mellon in order to do SAML-based authentication for web services. I did so because it seemed quite easy to configure (and the Ubuntu mod_shib package had a nasty bug some years ago when I made first contact with SAML). However mod_shib (part of the shibboleth service provider (SP) implenetation) […]
This short post is about how to run the open-webui docker container with an apache based reversed proxy (handling the SSL termination and authentication with mod-auth-mellon). In the following example the open-webui docker container is listening on localhost only, port 8009 (s. variable definition at the beginning of the apache2 config): In order to use […]
While playing around with Apache web server authentication I was wondering: Is it possible to authenticate Apache against LDAP without requiring a proxy account to do the queries? At first glance this seems to require an LDAP server that allows anonymous bind and read access, however there’s another way: If a regular user (of the […]