title: got error 404 while installing shibboleth, unable to get idp/status
body: <p>I am new to this shibboleth Identity Provider and evaluating shibboleth want to use for Identity provider for our application, tried to install shibboleth
  2.4.0, after following detailed steps form documentation.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPInstall" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/IdPInstall</a></p>
  
  <p>when try to Download it give version 3.0.0, which is alpha version , which is not recommended to use in production env, so I started using version 2.4.0,
  after running ./install.sh and deploy idp.war in tomcat</p>
  
  <pre><code>   get 404 error  https://localhost:8443/idp/status
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Am I using stable version, which version should I use I can see there are many versions available after 2.4.0, followed this below link I had download shibboleth zip </p>
  
  <pre><code> http://shibboleth.net/downloads/identity-provider/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>