Login Redirection Doing an Infinite Loop Due to Using a File Based Policy in a Clustered Portal Application (Doc ID 1620451.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 04, 2023

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Symptoms

When accessing the home.jspx page of a Custom WebCenter Portal application, it redirects to login.jspx and then redirects to login.html and this goes into an infinite loop. There is a similar issue that results in the redirect ending in a 404 (see NOTE:1438815.1 After Restarting WebCenter Portal Managed Server, Some Pages Return HTTP-404 Error Page).

• Application is deployed to custom portal managed servers in a multi node cluster.
• Application is created using the proper WebCenter Portal Application Template in JDeveloper.
• Custom portal managed servers are created using the proper WebCenter Custom Portal Template as described in NOTE:1339004.1 "Tutorial: Creating WebLogic Managed Servers for Deployment of Custom WebCenter Portal Applications or WebCenter Producer Applications for Oracle WebCenter R11 (PS3/PS4/PS5)" (Section 5.2) when extending the domain.
• The behavior may not occur with only a single custom portal managed server running. It may only appear to occur after starting another managed server in the domain, after the custom portal managed server is already started.

In the custom portal managed server access log the following is displayed:

1. login.html redirect to login.jspx.
2. login.jspx redirect to adfAuthentication.
3. adfAuthentication redirects to login.html and loop back to step 1.

In the custom portal managed server diagnostic log, messages similar to the following display when the looping occurs:

[NOTIFICATION] [] [oracle.jps.authorization.provider] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: anonymous] [ecid: xxxxxxx] [APP: xxxxxxx] Subject Subject:[[ privilege NA resource //app/policy/xxxxxxx/null/null result ABSTAIN

Cause