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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Folks:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have an Idp set up on a CentOS Linux box, and can authenticate against it using an SP on a Windows 7 IIS box.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I recently added an SP to the same Linux box as the Idp so that I could understand the setup of an apache native SP.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m running apache 2.3, with a virtual host.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My IdP is running under tomcat 6 on the same box.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After running through the usual issues of ensuring that metadata was consistent across the shibboleth2.xml file, the relyin-party.xml file and the idp-metadat.xml file, I was faced with a persistent problem at login time. My user id was succesfully authenticated but I repeatedly received errors about sending a POST message to an invalid host.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The server that this runs on is : ‘dt-safe1.client.research.att.com’<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The EntityID that I use for the SP is ‘safehost.research.att.com’<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This problem went away when I changed the ServerName line in my apache httpd.conf file from ‘dt-safe1.client.research.att.com’ <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To ‘safehost.research.att.com’, which is BOTH the name of my entity AND the name of a virtual host in this same apache httpd.conf file.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It leaves me , however, with a situation in which my IdP successfully authenticates my USER ID and then IMMEDITALY returns me to the login page requesting a new login ID.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I suspect that I have set up some sort of cycle in my naming convention, but so far can’t figure this out on my own.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any experience with this sort of “circular” behavior in shibboleth?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martin pardee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>