help required on shibboleth+testshib

[Kevin Foote]

> On Mar 18, 2015, at 9:58 AM, Akshik dbk <akshik at outlook.com> wrote:
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> im having tough time in understanding the entry id, how do we find what is the correct entryid, iwas under the assumption that whatever that gives the metadata is the entryid. correct me if im wrong and point me in right direction
> 

The entityID is how the two parts of shibboleth (client/server) know how to communicate with each other. The entityID is simply a URI that you define when you are configuring your software. In your case this is defined in the shibboleth2.xml file. The SP handler location at /Shibboleth.sso/Metadata delivers example metadata based on a) your shibboleth2.xml configuration and b) your web server (HTTPD) configuration. 

A common issue arrises if your web server is misconfigured and the ACS URLs in the resulting metadata file are inaccurate for your environment. 

[1]  https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/MetadataForSP

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thanks
 kevin.foote