Where is java_home detected from by the installer?

[Dave Perry]

To clarify the supported Jetty version statement I made, I was looking at this page:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/Installation

(different to the one you referenced)

Does this mean that page should say Jetty 9.2+ (for consistent wording between that and the System Requirements page) or does Jetty 9.4 need adding as a bullet point?
And if any of you are running Jetty 9.4, did you have to make any/many changes? The document they put out suggests I can just upgrade without making changes:
http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/9.4.x/upgrading-jetty.html


Thanks
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Agland [mailto:Jon.Agland at jisc.ac.uk] 
Sent: 17 July 2017 14:33
To: users at shibboleth.net; Dave Perry
Subject: Re: Where is java_home detected from by the installer?

> We ditched Tomcat as your team said Jetty was better supported by
> you!
> I didn't put Jetty 9.4 as part of the upgrade as it's not mentioned
> as Supported on the wiki.

So the Shibboleth project Wiki says says that the "recommended
container implementation is Jetty", but it also says that "Only Tomcat
8+ and Jetty 9.2+ are officially supported by the project at this
time", so as I see it either are valid, and I'm hoping that's what we
(assuming you meant UK federation) would have advised.

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/IDP30/SystemRequirements

The two systems I managed to lay my hands on easiest were running
Tomcat.


> I did run those commands you suggested manually (vs editing
> /etc/profile.local again), and it's let me run the installer and
> passes version/status checks.
> Adding that java.sh as suggested to the folder you specified is also
> working post-reboot.

Great to hear it's working :)

> 
> So thanks for your help.
> 
> I notice that on reboot the first load of the IdP is unsuccessful
> (restarting jetty does the trick), but I don't know if that's a jetty
> or java thing (I'll have to investigate at some point).

Off the top of my head.. check your logs, it could be the order that
services are loading on system startup?

Cheers,

Jon

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