basic authentication and shibboleth module

[Cantor, Scott]

On 7/2/14, 2:58 PM, "Joe Shamblin" <wjs at cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>
>We are in the process of moving all of our core infrastructure to new
>servers, and as a part of that we are updating apache (we are already
>using 2.5.3 for shibboleth). The problem I am experiencing is that
>anytime I load the shibboleth module, basic apache2 authentication
>breaks. It seems to work on the older server (2.2.26), but not with the
>(2.4.7 or 2.4.9). I am unsure if I am missing something in the shibboleth
>configuration, but it seems to be working properly with the older server.
>Is this a known issue, or is there something I am missing with my
>configuration?

It really depends on the configuration and what's breaking, but there are
various commands involved and interactions to deal with to prevent
problems.

https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPApacheConfig

As a start, see ShibCompatValidUser, which is a likely source of problems.
In a nutshell, it's very likely you'll have to make adjustments globally
to align with the necessary htaccess rules.

-- Scott