This is probably my longest standing action item in TERENA: implement a federated version of Confluence.
Below is the recipe for getting this to work. Ingredients:
- Ubuntu 12.04
- Confluence 5.1
- Apache
- modmellon
I choose modmellon because it seemed like a cleaner solution than mod_shib, requiring no additional daemons and much simpler configuration.
Apache web server
For modmellon to work, I recompiled Debian source packages from the University of Tilburg for Ubuntu 12.04 and made them available in our own APT repository.
Once that is done, the needed packages can be installed:
apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mellon