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 <p>https://incommon.org/federation/info/all-entities-mdq-beta.html</p>
 It depends on a JSON feed of metadata produced by:
 <p>https://github.internet2.edu/InCommon/inc-md-json</p>
+At deploy-time, the symlink from 'metadata' needs to point to /usr/local/pkg/metadriven/metadata on the web server, which is where the JSON metadata files are maintained