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From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]=20
Sent: 11 May 2005 17:02
To: Andrew Booth; 'Sean Mehan'; Adam Marshall
Subject: Fwd: Bodington bugs and help

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Alistair

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Scott, John R" <jr...@es...>
Date: 11 May 2005 17:00:07 BST
To: "Alistair Young" <ali...@sm...>
Subject: RE: Bodington bugs and help

Alistair,

It worked! I can now get access to the Guanxi presentation. Thanks for =
all
your help with this. It's very much appreciated.

Sorry going to have to dash now to collect my car from the garage before =
it
closes otherwise I'll have a long walk home!

Thanks again.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 11 May 2005 16:53
To: Scott, John R
Subject: Re: Bodington bugs and help

try that now John - though I suspect it won't work as your cert wont
match BodGuanxi-2089334802 anymore - do you have a cert to go with
BodGuanxi-2089334802?

Alistair

On 11 May 2005, at 16:46, Scott, John R wrote:

Alistair,

I think this was my fault as I created a keystore when I got tomcat
working and so BodGuanxi-2089334802 appears at the end of the idp.xml
file. I have left it as is and attached it.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 11 May 2005 16:37
To: Scott, John R
Subject: Re: Bodington bugs and help

you sent me this:

BodGuanxi-1283450654

but your system is sending as:

BodGuanxi-2089334802

your metadata is wrong - send me the shibboleth.xml snippet and cert
or
change them at your end to be what your sent a minute ago - and
restart
your tomcat.

Alistair

On 11 May 2005, at 16:34, Scott, John R wrote:

Alistair,

I am logged in locally as sysadmin but get the following message when
go via your WAYF. I presume there is something wrong at my end?

Inter-institutional Access System Failure
The inter-institutional access system experienced a technical failure
at Wed May 11 16:32:46 2005
An error occurred at your identity provider while processing your
request

Otherwise, please contact the application's administrator at
uh...@sm....

Please include the following error message in any email:

SHIRE failure at (https://www.guanxi.uhi.ac.uk/Shibboleth.shire)

Exception: metadata error: ShibPOSTProfile::accept() metadata lookup
failed, unable to process assertion

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 11 May 2005 16:31
To: Scott, John R
Subject: Re: Bodington bugs and help

oops! fixed - give it a try now John

Alistair

On 11 May 2005, at 16:20, Scott, John R wrote:

Alistair, I think the WAYF is still pointing to chimera91 rather
than
chimeraweb.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 11 May 2005 16:17
To: Scott, John R
Subject: Re: Bodington bugs and help

John, point your browser to:

http://www.guanxi.uhi.ac.uk/shibb/bod/

Choose "Test Server, University of Essex" from the WAYF page.

If you login to your Bodington first, then go to the url above,
you
won't have to login again.

let me know how you get on.

cheers,
Alistair

On 11 May 2005, at 16:05, Scott, John R wrote:

Alistair,

Info for the shibboleth.xml file is:
Origin Site name : BodGuanxi-1283450654
Handle Service location:
http://chimeraweb.essex.ac.uk:8000/bodington/guanxi/SSO

Attribute Authority Location:
http://chimeraweb.essex.ac.uk:8000/bodington/guanxi/AA

Domain: essex.ac.uk

I have attached the certificate.
Thanks

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 11 May 2005 15:53
To: Scott, John R
Subject: Re: Bodington bugs and help

good stuff - can your resend me your shibboleth.xml snippet and
guanxi_idp_cert.txt
ta,
Alistair

On 11 May 2005, at 15:08, Scott, John R wrote:

Alistair,

I have set up Tomcat for SSL and removed the IP filtering from
Tomcat
so you should be able to get through now.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 10 May 2005 14:57
To: Scott, John R
Subject: Re: Bodington bugs and help

John,
You have to create the user password tool from the list of
resources.
The dev team are looking into creating this be default at
installation.

If you don't have a keystore, when you first go to
https://chimeraweb.essex.ac.uk:8443/bodington/guanxi/SSO, a
default
keystore will be created with random keys and passwords.

This tells you how to set up Tomcat for SSL. It's quite easy
really:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/ssl-howto.html

cheers,
Alistair

On 10 May 2005, at 14:53, Scott, John R wrote:

Alistair,

I couldn't seem to find this. I went to User Administration
for
System
Administration zone but can't see anything there.

I've not used Tomcat with SSL before. In the documentation it
talks
about setting up a keystore. Do I need to do this or can I
use
the
Guanxi one and get Tomcat to point to it?

Sorry for the perhaps ignorant questions on my part.

I'll get port 8443 opened and be in touch when its done.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 10 May 2005 14:44
To: Scott, John R
Subject: Re: Bodington bugs and help

John,
to change the sysadmin password:

as sysadmin you can (create and) use the User Directory tool
to
reset
any passwords to a random password of 6 characters; (create
and)
use
the Personal Data Tool to change your own password to one of
your
choice

Alistair

On 10 May 2005, at 13:45, Scott, John R wrote:

Alistair.

I now have a Bodington system working that is accessible
from
outside
the firewall. However I have limited access according to IP
Address
so
if you could let me know the IP address/range I should
enable I
will
do so.

Port 443 isn't open though. Do I need to get this enabled
aswell?

The server is:
http://chimeraweb.essex.ac.uk:8000/bodington/site

I have attached the certificate.

On a separate point do you know if there is a way from
Bodington
to
change the default sysadmin password?

Regards

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 06 May 2005 13:56
To: Scott, John R
Subject: Re: Bodington bugs and help

You have to open your guanxi IdP through the firewall as
our
WAYF
and
SP will be talking to it.
I can't help until I can see the server.

Alistair

On 6 May 2005, at 13:23, Scott, John R wrote:

Alistair,

Test server is fine.

Should have said chimera91 is behind our firewall. Does
it
need
to
be
accessible from outside to do this?

I tried the URL and selected the home institution and
clicked
on
authenticate. It came up with 'Page not found' for the
following
URL:

http://chimera91.essex.ac.uk/bodington/guanxi/
<%=3D%20request.getParameter(Shibboleth.SHIRE)%20%>

Regards
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 06 May 2005 12:51
To: Scott, John R
Subject: Re: Bodington bugs and help

Hi John,
I've added you to our WAYF as "Test server, University of
Essex"
-
is
this ok or would you prefer a different name?

You can access:
http://www.guanxi.uhi.ac.uk/shibb/bod.php

I tried accessing
http://chimera91.essex.ac.uk/bodington/guanxi/SSO
but
it didn't respond - is it down just now?

cheers,
Alistair

On 6 May 2005, at 12:32, Scott, John R wrote:

Alistair,

Sorry for the delay in replying - combination of being
out
of
the
office and other things cropping up.

I haven't changed the idp.xml that came with the
install.
Do I
need
to
change the <issuer> element? Also I have left the
bodingtonAttributorARP.xml the same and wondered if I
needed
to
add
ourselves as a provider name?

The information for the shibboleth.xml file is
therefore:
Origin Site name : BodGuanxi-1283450654 (unless of
course I
need
to
change it)
Handle Service location:
http://chimera91.essex.ac.uk/bodington/guanxi/SSO
Attribute Authority Location: I presume is
http://chimera91.essex.ac.uk/bodington/guanxi/AA but not
sure
as
nothing is displayed when access this location using
browser.
Domain: essex.ac.uk

I have attached the certificate file.

Thanks

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 03 May 2005 20:20
To: Scott, John R
Cc: col...@co...
Subject: RE: Bodington bugs and help

Hi John,
perhaps Colin can comment on the login page problem.

The Guanxi loging page at:
http://www.your.bodington.url/guanxi/SSO
has no use unless it's contacted by an SP. If you see
the
login
page
ok,
with username and password boxes then you're fine.
It's also created a keystore for you.

If you follow the instructions at:
http://www.weblogs.uhi.ac.uk/sm00ay/?p=3D71
under the "What Service Provider (SP) changes do you
need
to
make?"
heading and send me the XML extracts from your Bodington
IdP,
I
can
give
you access to resources at UHI to let you see how it all
works.

Feel free to give me a phone on 01471 888343. Mid
morning
Wed,
as
I
have
to drop the car off at the garage!

cheers,

Alistair

--
Alistair Young
Senior Software Engineer
UHI@Sabhal M=F2r Ostaig
Isle of Skye
Scotland

Alistair and Colin,

Thanks for your help. I don't know what I did before -
perhaps
I
accidentally used an older war file. Probably down to
Friday
afternoon
syndrome! I used the installer and it works in a
fashion
anyway.

So I have Bodington working although I'm a bit confused
when
I
access
it. I'm using IE and it says 'You are about to view
pages
over
a
secure
connection' whilst having the login page behind showing
'With
encryption' and 'Without encryption'

If I click on OK in the Security alert dialogue box it
looks
for
bs_template_login_step1.html' and I get 'page cannot be
displayed'
If
I
close the Security alert box and click on 'Without
encryption'
it
takes
me through to the Bodington Login page. Can you
explain
what's
going
on
here please?

Also is there some way I can demo it to show people
what
an
IdP
looks
like? Would I need to set up an second Bodington VLE?
Do
I
need
to
develop an SP?

Finally Alistair the Guanxi login page I presume is
just
to
show
that
its working?

Thanks
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Alistair Young [mailto:ali...@sm...]
Sent: 02 May 2005 09:54
To: col...@co...
Cc: Scott, John R
Subject: Re: Bodington bugs and help

Hi folks,
I downloaded bodington_war-2.4.2.zip and

bodington_installer-2.4.2.jar

from sourceforge and they both have the /guanxi
directory.
Guanxi is shipped disabled by default, so you have to
go
into
WEB-INF/web.xml and delete two lines marked:
DELETE THIS LINE TO ENABLE Guanxi
then restart tomcat.
Details are then in /guanxi/bodhowto.html
There's more info at:
http://www.weblogs.uhi.ac.uk/sm00ay/?p=3D71
it's on my blog until I get time to put it on the
Guanxi
website.
cheers,
Alistair

On 29 Apr 2005, at 18:20, Colin Tatham wrote:

Yes, I would think so. (I've copied Alistair into
this,
he
did
all

the

Guanxi stuff).

I would be worried though that something has gone
wrong
in
your
war
deployment, which could result in other problems.

Colin

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott, John R [mailto:jr...@es...]
Sent: 29 April 2005 18:08
To: col...@co...
Subject: {SPAM?} RE: {CONTENT} RE: Bodington bugs
and
help

Thanks Colin. Yes it would be good to know why it
can't
find
those
files.

Do you know if I can just copy the Guanxi directory
that
is
missing into
webapps\bodington?

Sorry to be a nuisance. Your help is much
appreciated.

John

Chimera Institute for Socio-Technical Innovation and
Research
University of Essex
Ross Building pp1
Adastral Park
Martlesham Heath
Ipswich
IP5 3RE
Email: jr...@es...
<mailto:jr...@es...>
Mobile: 0771 001 0855

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Tatham
[mailto:colin.tatham@computing-
services.oxford.ac.uk]

Sent: 29 April 2005 17:57
To: Scott, John R
Subject: {CONTENT} RE: Bodington bugs and help

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Hi John
It sounds to me like you've successfully installed
it
via
the
war

file

route, and you don't need to use the jar file
installer.
(To
install via
the
jar you need to execute java -jar <jar-filename>. It
will
then take you
through some command line instructions.)

The jar file installer unpacks it's contents into
the
structure that you
should see in the war (different to what you'd see
if
you
'unzipped' the
jar
file...)

I'll have a think about the 'Page not found' problem
now...

Colin

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott, John R [mailto:jr...@es...]
Sent: 29 April 2005 17:45
To: col...@co...
Subject: RE: Bodington bugs and help

Colin,

Sorry but I wasn't sure how to install it using the
installer
jar file.
Could you tell me please?

I note that if I unzip it then it contains a
bodington.zip

file. When

this is unzipped it contains the Guanxi directory
(which
I'm
interested
in) but when tomcat expands the bodington.war the
Guanxi
directory
doesn't appear to be there. So do I need to use the
installer?

Also once I have bodington up and go to login when
I
choose

without

encryption I get 'Page not found'.

John

Chimera Institute for Socio-Technical Innovation
and
Research
University of Essex
Ross Building pp1
Adastral Park
Martlesham Heath
Ipswich
IP5 3RE
Email: jr...@es...
<mailto:jr...@es...>
Mobile: 0771 001 0855

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Tatham

[mailto:colin.tatham@computing-
services.oxford.ac.uk]

Sent: 29 April 2005 17:25
To: Scott, John R
Cc: 'Adam Marshall'
Subject: Bodington bugs and help

Hi John

| Should I email you directly or is their a central
address
that I send
| to?

For help with Bodington installation questions, etc
you
could
join

the

Bodington developers mailing list:

http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/
bodington-
developers

or you can use the enquiries address, and your
queries
will
be
forwarded,
like this one!
(Feel free to mail us individually too, if you
prefer.)

You can also report bugs on the SourceForge site,
but
at
the
moment you
need
to have a SourceForge account to do that.

| Could you just answer what is perhaps an ignorant
question
from

me

| please? I installed Bodington by dropping the
.war
file
in
the tomcat
| directory and then starting it up. However on
SourceForge
there is an
| installer jar file which I wasn't sure about how
I
should
use.

There are currently 2 installation routes, the war
file
and
the
installer
jar. We intend removing the installer jar route in
the
near
future, but
at
this stage you can use either one.

Colin

Colin Tatham
VLE Team
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Rd
Oxford
OX2 6NN

Tel: (01865)283660

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