Shibboleth IdP and Jetty 8

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/25/13 3:09 PM, "xenophon\+shibboleth"
<xenophon+shibboleth at irtnog.org> wrote:
>
>I only copied the xalan and xercesImpl JARs to $JETTY_HOME/lib/endorsed.
>Not only did I need to copy the other endorsed JARs from the Shibboleth
>IdP binary distribution to $JETTY_HOME/lib/endorsed, I also needed to
>uncomment the "--exec" option in start.ini.  With these changes applied,
>Jetty starts properly, and I can navigate to
>http://cinip101bsdweb.irtnog.net:8080/idp/profile/Status and get the
>expected "ok" back.

That's Jetty material. It isn't that simple by any means because it
depends on how you operate your Jetty, which is not in scope for us. I can
tell you my Jetty use is nothing at all like that, and my needs would be
very common (running it on port 443 so using setuid for example).

>For being the recommended option, the installation instructions for
>Jetty need significant editing, especially for those unfamiliar with
>modern JSP implementations.

They're meant as examples. It never goes well when we try and document
containers.

>  To whom should I send any documentation updates?

You can make improvements directly, that's why it's a wiki. In this case,
I would be very leery of anything that speaks to one particular Jetty
startup strategy. The endorsement issue though is just a simple error.

-- Scott