Issue with 2.5.1 and Apache 2.4

[Kurktchiev, Boris]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to run the latest version of Shibboleth with latest apache 2.4 and I am getting some weird errors that I am unable to find anything on the list/documentation or google about.

My error log is filled with: .htaccess: Unknown Authz provider: Shibboleth

The offending .htaccess contains:
# BEGIN Shibboleth
AuthType Shibboleth
ShibUseHeaders On
Require Shibboleth
# END Shibboleth


Shibboleth is being loaded using the /etc/shibboleth/apache24.config file which looks like:
LoadModule mod_shib /usr/lib64/shibboleth/mod_shib_24.so
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
  <Location /shibboleth-sp>
    Allow from all
  </Location>
  Alias /shibboleth-sp/main.css /usr/share/shibboleth/main.css
</IfModule>
<Location /secure>
  AuthType shibboleth
  ShibRequestSetting requireSession 1
  require valid-user
</Location>

This is all running on an RHEL6 with a custom compiled apache and shibboleth.
Just for completeness sake, here is a dump of all loaded modules (since the one thing I did find suggested that the error might be coming from the module not being loaded, but you can see it on the bottom of the list):
Loaded Modules:
 core_module (static)
 so_module (static)
 http_module (static)
 mpm_prefork_module (static)
 php5_module (shared)
 security2_module (shared)
 unixd_module (shared)
 access_compat_module (shared)
 setenvif_module (shared)
 log_config_module (shared)
 ssl_module (shared)
 auth_basic_module (shared)
 auth_digest_module (shared)
 authn_anon_module (shared)
 authn_core_module (shared)
 authn_dbd_module (shared)
 authn_dbm_module (shared)
 authn_file_module (shared)
 authn_socache_module (shared)
 authz_core_module (shared)
 authz_dbd_module (shared)
 authz_dbm_module (shared)
 authz_groupfile_module (shared)
 authz_host_module (shared)
 authz_owner_module (shared)
 authz_user_module (shared)
 alias_module (shared)
 mime_module (shared)
 socache_shmcb_module (shared)
 unique_id_module (shared)
 mod_shib (shared)

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

-Boris Kurktchiev