403 forbidden on ..shibboleth-ds/index.html

[Peter Schober]

* Keith Hazelton <keith.hazelton at wisc.edu> [2015-09-14 17:01]:
> I’m doing initial configuration of the embedded discovery service on
> an Shib SP 2.5.5.  When I go to /secure, I get back a 403 forbidden:
> You don't have permission to access /shibboleth-ds/index.html on
> this server. I’m using the config setup right from the wiki pages.
> Is this a permission error somehow?  With a fixed IdP,  /secure
> works as expected.

[Not] Being able to access the EDS' /shibboleth-ds/index.html has
nothing to do with the rest of the SP's workings, so yes, permissions
of some kind.
Is that from an RPM install (yum or manual) or from
shibboleth.net/downloads/ or from SVN...
-peter