Scratch that This line was missing a / at the end <bean parent="CAS.LoginConfiguration" p:forceAuthn="true" > should be <bean parent="CAS.LoginConfiguration" p:forceAuthn="true" /> I think it's working. :-) Thanks everyone! Mel -- Sent from: https://shibboleth.1660669.n2.nabble.com/Shibboleth-Users-f1660767.html