Install woes - idp.war won't load, and idp.jks cert errors

[Rod Widdowson]

Don't even try to use tomcat7, it isn't supported. 

> I have two problems (so far)
> 
> 1. I can't get the idp to run. The error is familiar to this list:

Is there nothing further up the Tomcat logs (or perhaps anything in the Shib logs)?

> I believe I have correctly added the ${cataline_home}/endorsed/*.jar to 
> conf/catalina.properties 

Note that RHEL 6 is known to do crazy things with the endorsed directory.  

http://groups.google.com/group/shibboleth-users/browse_thread/thread/cd0b4dbf723d2bfe/f3670bfb65fed690?lnk=gst&q=tomcat+endorsed#f36
70bfb65fed690

You state that you are using 5.6, but craziness is infectious

> "An error occurred during a connection to idp.xxxx.edu:8443.
> 
> SSL peer cannot verify your certificate.
> 
> (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_alert)"
> 
> 
> Again - any ideas?

This means you have configured the port correctly - that port isn't meant for browsers.  For now I'd assume that this is OK and go
back to it when you test the SAML1 flows.