to set this environment variable is to set it in your web server's configuration. See the next section for more

information.

Examples below assume that SimpleSAMLphp is installed in the default location, `/var/simplesamlphp`. You may choose

another location, but this requires a path update in a few files. See Appendix _Installing SimpleSAMLphp

them are accessible through the `public` subdirectory of your SimpleSAMLphp installation. You can name the alias

whatever you want, but the name must be specified in the `baseurlpath` configuration option in the `config.php` file of

SimpleSAMLphp as described in

Here is an example of how this configuration may look like in `config.php`:

There are a few steps that you should complete in the main configuration file, `config.php`, right away:

this folder there are a lot of subfolders for library, metadata, configuration, etc. One of these folders is named

`public`. **Only this folder should be exposed on the web**. The recommended configuration is to put the whole

`simplesamlphp` folder outside the web root, and then link to the `public` folder by using the `Alias` directive, as

possible way, though.

As an example, let's see how you can install SimpleSAMLphp in your home directory on a shared hosting server.