Your users, staff and students will regularly be viewing your IdP login page. They will also be using other sites within your organisation. To ensure that your users will be comfortable entering their username and password the login page should have the same corporate logos, images and branding as the rest of your site.


Recommendation: The AAF Recommends that your IdP user interface has similar corporate branding to the rest of your site.


A number of organisations have just replaced the Shibboleth logos with their corporate logos and stop there. Your web team should be consulted on the design and layout of your IdP to ensure it is consistent with your entire site so your users are comfortable using the site.


You also need to remember that your IdP presents a number of pages to users, not only the login page. Each of these pages needs to have consistent branding. The following tables list the majority of pages your users may experience when logging in;



 Page     Description 
 Shibboleth IdP pages  
 login.jsp  Main login page 
 login.css      Cascading Style Sheets associate with the login page
 error-404.jsp  Error page - Invalid URL entered
 error.jsp  Error page – General IdP error
 login-error.jsp  Error page – An error occurred while logging in
 logout.jsp  Page shown on successful completion of the logout 
 images/      Directory for images used by the IdP UI
 uApprove pages  
 attribute-release.jsp      uApprove user consent of attribute release main page
 header.jsp  Header for uApprove pages
 footer.jsp  Footer for uApprove pages
 styles.css  Cascading Style Sheets associate with the uApprove pages
 logo.png  Logo that appears on the uApprove pages
 attribute-release.properties  If you want to change the titles on the uApprove page concatenate this file to /opt/shibboleth-idp/conf/uApprove.properties. Then modify as required.
 Web Server Error pages  
 503.html  Error – Connection between Apache and Tomcat down – generally Tomcat is not running
 404.html      Error – Missing file
 500.html  Error – Server problem

 


All error pages should provide suitable information the use can pass onto your support desk that will aid in trouble shooting the issue.

References:

  • Customizing the Username/Password Login Page