IdP status page returns "HTTP Status 404" using the quick installer on Windows Server 2008 R2

[Peter Schober]

* xenophon\+shibboleth <xenophon+shibboleth at irtnog.org> [2012-10-25 01:17]:
> I stayed pretty close to the default installation, making only the
> following changes to the given defaults:
> 
> *	installed jre-6u35-windows-i586 (32-bit Java SE runtime
> environment)
> 
> *	set DNS name of host = our fully qualified domain name for the
> IdP in public DNS, which points to the private IP address in the local
> DNS
> 
> *	AD server = the fully qualified domain name of the local domain
> controller
> 
> *	username/password = our service account (a member of "Domain
> Users")
> 
> *	scope = our public DNS domain name, which differs from our
> internal AD domain name
[...]
> I'm seeing errors in the following log files (backtraces elided).  Of
> note is the message "Unable to retrieve LDAP connection".

Since the error is

Caused by:
edu.internet2.middleware.shibboleth.common.attribute.resolver.AttributeR
esolutionException: Unable to retrieve LDAP connection

I'd start by looking at the Shibboleth IdP's log files, not the
container's.
-peter