Question about installing Shibboleth idp on ubuntu server

[Peter Schober]

* Yasser Afifi <yasser at 3dissue.com> [2016-01-27 11:38]:
> Thanks to your great help I managed to install Shib idp and SP on
> windows machine, they working fine. Now i am trying to deploy them
> on an Ubuntu server.

What version of the IDP are you installing?
(I know I've asked before, can't recall having seen an answer.)

> 1- I downloaded Shib IDP and unzipped it to  /opt/shibboleth-idp
> 2- i installed tomcat 8, and created idp.xml with the following contents:
> 
> <Context docBase="/opt/shibboleth-idp/war/idp.war"
>          privileged="true"
>          antiResourceLocking="false"
>          antiJARLocking="false"
>          unpackWAR="false"
>          swallowOutput="true" />

For the current IDP that's not correct, check the documentation.

> now My question is, is there anything else i should be doing to use the
> IDP?

Everything the documentation state, I would guess?

> when i try to go to the IDP url it doesn't work. So i want to make
> sure that's all I have to do to make it work.

What is "the IDP url" and what means "it doesn't work"?
This is a technical software mailing list, so you'll need to be specific.

> My Second question is: in the wiki, it says we should deploy this idp.xml
> file inside /conf/Catalina/localhost/idp.xml. Does this "localhost" have to
> match your domain or should it always be set to localhost?

For Tomcat8 on a Debian-based Linux distribution (such as Ubuntu) the
directory to put that file in is /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/localhost/
That's the verbatim name of the directory, and that has already been
created since it's part of the tomcat8 package.
-peter