Is RequestMapper required to map to applications when using Apache httpd?

[Alex Stuart]

Dear Shibboleth Users,

I'm trying to support someone who has httpd configured with 2 vhosts.
The single shibd has 2 separate applications each with their own
entityID, and they want to map requests to each domain to its own
application & entityID.

The documentation
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPRequestMapper
seems to indicate that Apache-based deployments can rely entirely on
Apache functionality (paragraph 4). But it looks like one needs a
RequestMap to map the requests to the application. There don't appear to
be any ShibRequestSetting contents settings that replace the mapping.

I had a look back at the history of that documentation page. Version 9
has paragraph 1 saying RequestMapper is like the Apache Location
feature; paragraph 2 says Apache can do all of this (referring to para
1); paragraph 3 says you also use RequestMapper for mapping to
applications. Then in version 14 paragraphs 2 and 3 get swapped so the
documentation now says Apache Location can be used for everything that
RequestMapper does.

Can you confirm that one does need the RequestMapper to map to
applications? If so, I propose to edit the documentation so that the 4th
paragraph runs onto the end of the first paragraph, leaving the 2nd, 3rd
and 5th paragraphs intact.

Thanks,
Alex


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Alex Stuart
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EDINA, University of Edinburgh

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