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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My name is Anna and I work at UC Berkeley. I have a question on the above. I’ve been unable to find the answer via googling, or via the wiki.shibboleth.net site. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Brief intro: My main project involves an application hosted at UC Berkeley, but used by two additional UCs. One of those UCs has launched Shibboleth as their authentication system, and I was given the task of building the SP to connect to the other school’s IdP. I am not an experience Shibboleth coder, but I build the database and could spell “Shibboleth” and attended a workshop on building an SP. We have a three system environment – Dev, Qa, Prod. Windows based, running IIS 6, virtual machines. So far, I’ve been working and learning in Dev. I have full access to the various XML files, and the ability to restart the Shib service, but do not have access to the IIS manager or OS. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Issue: A few weeks ago, I had the department that manages our servers upgrade to 2.4.3 on Dev, and install the software for the first time on QA. While configuring the QA shibboleth2.xml file yesterday – and staying well away from the “restart shib service” routine - the websites on QA started going down. I quickly replaced the copy I was working on with the default shibboleth2.xml file, and was able to get the sites back up. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve been working/learning in dev for a few months now, and the only time I took down the server like this was after I had restarted the shibd service with a bad shib2.xml file. This time, the service seemed to restart on its own. The shibd.log had nothing since the initial install on 8/9, but native.log had these lines at the time of the problem:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>INFO Shibboleth.Config [6708] isapi_shib: change detected, signaling reload thread...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>INFO Shibboleth.Config : reloading local resource...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ERROR Shibboleth.Config : error while loading resource (E:/opt/shibboleth-sp/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml): XML error(s) during parsing, check log for specifics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>CRIT Shibboleth.Config : maintaining existing configuration, error reloading resource (E:/opt/shibboleth-sp/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml): XML error(s) during parsing, check log for specifics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The ERROR and the CRIT are understandable – I was still working on shibboleth2.xml, and wasn’t anywhere near ready to restart the service and reload the file for testing. But it looks like it reloaded on its own when I saved the file. I checked my logs from my earlier dev work – I couldn’t find the same lines, and I was configuring and saving shibboleth2.xml constantly. It looks like we were originally on 2.2.1 before the upgrade, but I can’t find any release notes that indicates “auto restart of shib service on shibboleth2.xml file change.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve checked everywhere I can think of and can’t find details on why this is happening. I’ve confirmed it on Dev – any time shibboleth2.xml is saved, it will reload. Is this a setting in the OS or IIS manager that somehow got turned on? Or a function of 2.4.3? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any assistance is sincerely appreciated!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anna<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>