Shibboleth SP installation on Ubuntu 14

[Peter Schober]

* Aidan <aidan at consultbelieve.com> [2016-12-14 11:38]:
> I have followed this guide on setting up Shibboleth SP on Ubuntu:
> 
> https://www.switch.ch/aai/guides/sp/installation-2.5/?os=ubuntu

Then you should be able to help yourself, as neither SWITCHaai
provides support for their third-party software packages or
documentation (unless you're a SWITCH customers) nor does this
community here.

> I have hit a wall when it comes to testing the "mod_shib Test", when
> we are trying to access site/Shibboleth.sso/Session

You don't mention what the actual problem is (other than hitting walls
when trying to access a URL). What's the result of trying to access
that?

> I feel like I am missing some configuration / setup. In the root
> directory of my web server, Shibboleth.sso does not exist.

1. If there was anything additional you had to do the SWITCHaai docs
   would likely mention it.
2. That resource is a httpd "handler" and as such does you won't find
   a file of that name lying around in your filesystem.

Assuming you're getting an HTTP 404 error when trying to access the
above handler I'd recommend looking at
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Troubleshooting
in the "Native Service Provider (SP)" section, starting with
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPTroubleshootingTactics

Maybe you have changed handlerSSL to "true" in shibboleth2.xml and are
accessing the URL via plain HTTP.
-peter