Shibboleth SP 2.5.0 Windows installer for Apache 2.4.x - Feedback requested

[Rod Widdowson]

I'm answering this part of your question in shib-users for the record.

> we want to be prepared for Plan B option of using a zipped archive of the
> Shibboleth SP 2.5.0 binaries (to bypass the MSI installer initiated process).

> Per the documentation, it appears that we can setup the Shibboleth service daemon using the following
> command line options:
> 
> C:\opt\shibboleth-sp\sbin\shibd.exe -install <name>   to install the
> named service
> C:\opt\shibboleth-sp\sbin\shibd.exe -remove <name>    to remove the
> named service
> C:\opt\shibboleth-sp\sbin\shibd.exe -console          to run as a
> console app for debugging
> C:\opt\shibboleth-sp\sbin\shibd.exe -check            to run as a
> console app and check configuration
> 
> Any thoughts/feedback is highly appreciated.

Well yes, but there is a whole lot more stuff that needs to be placed in correct place before you can call shibd.exe.

You are really out of the support zone if you start doing this.  I suggest strongly that you spend the time working out which your
system denies access to Scripting.FileSystemObject and arrange to give the installer permission to use it.  It must have worked
once, since those scripts are mostly unchanged from earlier versions...

If you absolutely have to go down this route (and this is true for trying to do this with any installer, not just the shib one) The
place to usually start is with an administrative install;  but as I say you are out of the reasonably supported zone with this and
no one on this list can help you with that.