Shibboleth SP 2.5.0 Windows installer for Apache 2.4.x - Incomplete installation with Uninstall errors

[Patibanda, Seshi K.]

Hello all,

Installed Shibboleth SP 2.5.0 for Apache 2.4.x using the distributed
windows installer (shibboleth-sp-2.5.0-win32.msi, dated 06-SEP-2012) at
the default installation location (C:\opt\shibboleth-sp\) on Windows
Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 Build 3790. 

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Our server configuration:
Total Physical Memory:     1,023 MB
Available Physical Memory: 756 MB
Page File: Max Size:       2,470 MB
Page File: Available:      2,306 MB
C:\ drive - Available hard disk storage - 1.7 GB
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Before installing, made sure to update the System PATH environment
variable by adding the value C:\Program Files\Shibboleth\SP\lib (as
recommended by Shibboleth).

Installation didn't report any errors. However, upon looking at the
directory structure, it appears that the core configuration files (such
as shibboleth2.xml, apache24.config, attribute-map.xml, etc) were
missing at C:\opt\shibboleth-sp\etc\shibboleth. Similarly,
C:\opt\shibboleth-sp\var\log\shibboleth has some missing log files. As
expected, the Shibboleth service wouldn't start.

All attempts to remove the Shibboleth SP 2.5.0 installation FAILED. To
further troubleshoot the uninstall errors, ran the following windows
installer command line option:
msiexec /x shibboleth-sp-2.5.0-win32.msi /qn /l*v uninstall.log

>From the uninstall.log snippet (given below), it appears that the
uninstall was failing to execute a custom action
ShibUninstallISAPIFilter. Not sure why this custom action was being
executed as this action ShibInstallISAPIFilter was skipped during
"repair install" phase (ran using the msiexec command line options to
repair a failed installation and captured the info in a
repair_install.log file). 

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MSI (s) (80:1C) [15:35:10:988]: Executing op:
ActionStart(Name=ShibUninstallISAPIFilter,,)
MSI (s) (80:1C) [15:35:10:988]: Executing op:
CustomActionSchedule(Action=ShibUninstallISAPIFilter,ActionType=3078,Sou
rce=Sub DeleteISAPIFilters(IISPath,dllPath)

  Dim filter, FiltersObj, LoadOrder, FilterArray, FilterItem

  Set FiltersObj = GetObject(IISPath & "/Filters")
  LoadOrder = FiltersObj.FilterLoadOrder

  for each filter in FiltersObj
    if (filter.Class = "IIsFilter") then
      if (filter.FilterPath = dllPath) then

        'Delete the found filter here
        'If there's anything to potentially delete...
        if (LoadOrder <> "") then
          FilterArray = split(LoadOrder,",")
          LoadOrder = ""
          for each FilterItem in FilterArray
            if (FilterItem <> filter.Name) then
              LoadOrder = LoadOrder & FilterItem & ","
            end if
          next
          'Remove trailing comma if any filters were kept
          if (LoadOrder <> "") then
            LoadOrder = mid(LoadOrder,1,len(LoadOrder)-1)
          end if

          'Set the Load Order to the new shibboleth-less order
          if (FiltersObj.
MSI (s) (80:24) [15:35:10:988]: Generating random cookie.
MSI (s) (80:24) [15:35:11:003]: Created Custom Action Server with PID
3624 (0xE28).
MSI (s) (80:34) [15:35:11:035]: Running as a service.
MSI (s) (80:34) [15:35:11:035]: Hello, I'm your 32bit Elevated custom
action server.
MSI (s) (80:54) [15:35:11:097]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: Error 
MSI (s) (80:54) [15:35:11:097]: Note: 1: 2228 2:  3: Error 4: SELECT
`Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1720 
MSI (s) (80:54) [15:35:11:097]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: Error 
MSI (s) (80:54) [15:35:11:097]: Note: 1: 2228 2:  3: Error 4: SELECT
`Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 1709 
MSI (s) (80:54) [15:35:11:097]: Product: Shibboleth Service Provider --
Error 1720. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A
script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact
your support personnel or package vendor.  Custom action
ShibUninstallISAPIFilter script error -2146827859, Microsoft VBScript
runtime error: ActiveX component can't create object:
'Scripting.FileSystemObject' Line 88, Column 1,  

Error 1720. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A
script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact
your support personnel or package vendor.  Custom action
ShibUninstallISAPIFilter script error -2146827859, Microsoft VBScript
runtime error: ActiveX component can't create object:
'Scripting.FileSystemObject' Line 88, Column 1,  


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Couple of questions:

1. Did anyone ran into this install/uninstall issues with the most
recent Shibboleth SP 2.5.0 windows MSI installer for Apache 2.4.x on
Windows Server 2003 SP2?

2. What kind of user security privileges with local security policies
needed to run the Shibboleth SP 2.5.0 MSI installer?

3. If our server memory/storage space configuration is not sufficient to
install the Shibboleth SP 2.5 component, do you have any minimum server
requirements?

Any feedback/suggestions/comments are highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Seshi Patibanda