External Auth example, missing logo.

[PARDEE, MARTIN (MARTIN)]

Chad,

I can understand your frustration since it probably appears that I'm not reading or following your documented procedures.  This, however, could not be further from the truth.

I followed the tomcat installation instructions, including the bit about adding a configuration descriptor called idp.xml in TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost:

As evidence, here's the log entry from tomcat:

May 22, 2012 11:25:16 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor idp.xml


Even _with_ this descriptor,  tomcat insists on unpacking the war file as part of the deployment process, using the tomcat manager app. (I have also found that if I un-deploy the idp war file from tomcat using the tomcat manager and delete all of the idp-related directories and files in the TOMCAT space, when I bounce the tomcat server,  an idp directory re-appears in the TOMCAT_HOME/work/Catalina/localhost directory, which I believe Tomcat uses for caching purposes. I haven't yet found a way to explain this behavior.


My process for deploying my modified war file is as follows:

I have an eclipse project which was created by importing the original idp.war file.

I import a jar file containing my external authentication class into this project.

I rebuild and export the project as a war file into the IDP_HOME/war directory.

Just to be clean,  I un-deploy and re-deploy the idp.war file from IDP_HOME/war. Just as the instructions suggest in step 6:



Performing the Install

The Shibboleth Identity Provider, version 2, is a standard Java web application based on the Servlet 2.4 specification.

  1  Prepare your Servlet container: Jetty 7, Apache Tomcat, JBoss Tomcat
        If you are unsure which to choose, most people use Apache Tomcat.
        Linux deployers may want to take a look at IdPLinuxNonRoot.
  2  Download the latest Identity Provider software package.
  3  Unzip the archive you downloaded: jar -xf shibboleth-identityprovider-VERSION-bin.zip
  4  Change into the newly created IdP distribution directory, shibboleth-identityprovider-VERSION
  5  Run either ./install.sh (on Unix systems) or install.bat (on Windows systems).
        The installation directory given during installation will be known as IDP_HOME throughout this document.
  6  _Deploy the IdP WAR file, located in IDP_HOME/war/_. See the Servlet container preparation notes for the best approach for doing this.


If there is a method that I should be using to deploy this war file into tomcat's file tree I can't find a reference to it on the wiki pages. I would have thought that using the tomcat manager utility would have been sufficient and appropriate. If you know of a more successful method I would greatly appreciate you pointing it out.


Thanks for your patience and assistance,


Martin pardee
mlp at research.att.com




-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Chad La Joie
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 5:23 PM
To: Shib Users
Subject: Re: External Auth example, missing logo.



On 5/21/12 5:17 PM, PARDEE, MARTIN (MARTIN) wrote:
> Yes,  Tomcat is unpacking my war file and I've been making changes inside tomcat's webapps/idp tree.

If you're following the directions for installing the IdP there won't be
a webapps/idp directory.  If you aren't following our installation
instructions then this isn't the place to ask questions about it.
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