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Institutions typically use different ways (Shibboleth, LDAP, etc.) to authenticate users. It is difficult to achieve a one-size-fits-all deployment to address all the different authentication in OLE. This bottleneck can be cleared by using a reverse proxy.

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To remove the Backdoor Login () from the screen, the value in System Parameter, SHOW_BACK_DOOR_LOGIN_IND, can be set to 'N'.

Logout

The Logout button (Image Added) invalidates the OLE session. However, the redirect URL needs to be configured. Currently it defaults to the Application URL.

The configuration can be specified as a parameter in the olefs-config-defaults.xml file as below

Code Block
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titlein olefs-config-defaults.xml
<param name="rice.portal.logout.redirectUrl">[Specify URL here]</param>

Alternatively,

Configurations on the Apache HTTP side

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If you are experiencing HTTP 501 ("Method Not Implemented") errors, this may be the cause.  Check your Apache version and error logs for messages such as "ajp_marshal_into_msgb - No such method PATCH".

Possible Fixes

  1. Use mod_proxy_http instead of mod_proxy_ajp in your proxy setup.
  2. Use at least Apache 2.4.4 with mod_proxy_ajp.
  3. (Unverified) Use mod_jk instead of mod_proxy_ajp.