SP handlerURL modification not working

[Brent Goebel]

Hello,

I am trying to setup SSO with Ellucian Banner Document Management (Application Xtender). I’m using Shibboleth SP (v. 3.1.0.1) with it. Ellician requires the Assertion URL to be in the following format https://<hostname>/AppXtender/<https://%3chostname%3e/AppXtender/BdmSamlSso>

I know by default Shibboleth SP provides it as https://<hostname>/Shibboleth.sso/SAML2/POST<https://%3chostname%3e/Shibboleth.sso/SAML2/POST>

So I added handlerURL to the shibboleth2.xml under <ApplicationDefaults> to change the default handlerURL of Shibboleth.sso to AppXtender.

        <Sessions lifetime="28800" timeout="3600" relayState="ss:mem"
                               checkAddress="false" handlerSSL="true" cookieProps="https"
                  redirectLimit="exact" handlerURL="/AppXtender">

After making this change, I restart the Shibboleth Service and IIS. I go to the metadata URL (https://<hostname>/AppXtender/Metadata<https://%3chostname%3e/AppXtender/Metadata>) and the metadata does not populate.

Please note: I follow the same steps as above but instead of handlerURL="/AppXtender"> I put another name like handlerURL="/Folder01"> and go to the metadata URL ((https://<hostname>/Folder01/Metadata<https://%3chostname%3e/Folder01/Metadata>) for it (after IIS and Shib restart) and the metadata does indeed populate as expected.

I cannot figure out why it does not like when I have AppXtender as the handlerURL.

Any suggestions on what it may be? I try testing with different naming conventions like Folder01 and other names and those work just fine. Is there somewhere else I need to modify or identify this? I just don’t get why it works for other names and not the one I need.

Thanks so much!


Brent Goebel
Systems Engineer III

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