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<p class="MsoNormal">I am running RHEL6.2 , OpenSSL (built from source), Apache 2.4.3 (built from source), Shib SP dependencies – RPM’s installed from yum repo, Shib SP 2.5 (built from source):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">./configure --with-apxs24=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --enable-apache-24 --with-openssl=/usr/local/openssl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When I attempt to access a URL that is protected with Shibboleth the , eg: https://myhost.example.org/secure/<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">which should automatically serve index.html (due to DirectoryIndex config), a 500 Internal server error is displayed in the browser, and the following error is logged to the Apache error log:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[mod_shib:error] [pid 8866:tid 140049100285696] [client 139.222.121.134:53006] shib_base_check_authz found no per-request structure, referer:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The page is served correctly (with no errors), if accessed as: https://myhost.example.org/secure/index.html<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pages are also served correctly via DefaultIndex in areas that are not protected by Shib SP.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Relevant Apache config:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">LoadModule mod_shib modules/mod_shib_24.so<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><Location /secure ><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">AuthType shibboleth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">ShibRequestSetting requireSession 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Require valid-user<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""></Location><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any help or advice on this would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paul<o:p></o:p></p>
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