Rewrite rules took over Shibboleth SP SSO handler

[Cantor, Scott]

On 10/31/14, 9:23 AM, "Olivier Salaün" <olivier.salaun at renater.fr> wrote:
>
>We have a home brewed dokuwiki authN module on this server. The wiki
>relies heavily on URL rewriting rules for its pages handling/namespaces
>within its .htaccess own files. After the upgrade the
>"/Shibboleth.sso/Login" was no more handled by the mod_shib (Dokuwiki
> just tried to create a page name after that URL). We had to adapt the
>Apache rewriting rules to We had to adapt the rewriting rule in the
>.htaccess file to skip /Shibboleth.sso URLs.

That's expected.

>We did not identify in the Shibboleth SP changelog what could cause that
>change of behavior.
>
>If you have a clue about what changed in the SP to have such behavior,
>I'm very much interrested.

Apache does not guarantee module order. You were just relying on
unspecified behavior.

If the SP doesn't get control, by inference there's no possible way that
the SP itself caused the change. You were just lucky before.

-- Scott