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Configuring the SPS Federation Gateway

The SPS federation gateway can sit at the producer site and consumer site.

The overall configuration process for the SPS federation gateway is as follows:

1. Install the SPS.
2. Run the configuration wizard.
3. Specify the general server settings in the server.conf file. Though there are defaults for most of the server.conf settings, you may want to modify such settings as logging, session schemes, or virtual host settings.
4. Define proxy rules in the proxyrules.xml file so that requests are directed to the backend servers.

   At the enterprise producing assertions, federation requests are forwarded to the Tomcat server embedded in the SPS. The Tomcat server hosts the FWS application. Proxy rules and filters have no relevance when the federation request gets processed.

   At the enterprise consuming assertions, you need to define a proxy rule that forwards requests to the destination server after the user is permitted access to the target resource.

5. (Optional) You can modify the Apache web server file (httpd.conf).