users Digest, Vol 75, Issue 19

[Robert Rust]

Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 20:08:48 +0000
    From: "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu>
    To: Shib Users <users at shibboleth.net>
    Subject: RE: Shib SP - need help breaking out RequestMap into separate
    	file

    >I didn?t see anything in the logs suggesting problems or that it was even
    >trying to look at the extra file.  I introduced a syntax error into the external
    >file and it had no effect, even after adding validate=?true? to the
    >RequestMapper. I also tried adding the XML namespace declaration you
    >suggested, but as expected that did not work.  This isn?t a huge issue, since I
    >was just looking for a way to make the mapping configuration more portable
    >between our development and production servers (different hostnames
    >involved).  Thanks for the suggestions!
    
    If that's all true, you're not using the configuration you think you are, but that aside, just put both Hosts into the single map, which I imagine you already did as a workaround.
    
    -- Scott

Scott,

The point of my original question was trying to convince the SP to use the external file. I’m well aware that it’s obviously not looking at that external file if introducing a syntax error to that file doesn’t create problems. I haven’t installed the SP to our production servers yet so I’ve not tried putting both production and dev hosts into a single ISAPI block. Can I presume I just need to add aliases to the appropriate Site ID block?  Will the site name matter?

-Robert