Shibboleth Developers

[Derek Atkins <>]

The problem is that there is no way for the module to cause httpd to
fail to start.

-derek

"RL 'Bob' Morgan" 
<>
 writes:

> I rewrote shibboleth.ini on my target to put stuff into a shared location
> and didn't notice that I had to change the filename for metadata.XML for
> both shire and shar, so left the shire one unchanged.  Apache+shire ran
> for quite a while I guess, but filled shire.log with megabytes of:
> 
> 2003-06-09 17:34:30 CRIT SAML.XML.ParserPool STConfig::init addMetadata
> XMLMetadataImpl handleError: fatal error on line 0, column 0, message: An
> exception occurred! Type:RuntimeException, Message:The primary document
> entity could not be opened.
> Id=file:///opt/shibboleth/etc/shibboleth/sites.xml
> 2003-06-09 17:34:30 ERROR Shibboleth.XMLMetadataImpl STConfig::init
> addMetadata XMLMetadataImpl: XML error while parsing site configuration:
> XML::Parser detected a fatal error during parsing: An exception occurred!
> Type:RuntimeException, Message:The primary document entity could not be
> opened. Id=file:///opt/shibboleth/etc/shibboleth/sites.xml
> 
> Dunno what the right behavior should be, can it operate without sites.xml?
> If not it should probably not permit httpd to start up, yes?
> 
>  - RL "Bob"
> 
> 
> 

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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       

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