Support for OpenAthens in OJS

Software Support
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Hello, we have a tricky issue trying to debug why an institutional reader cannot get access to OJS. If has come up that it is possible they are using OpenAthens for SSO and proxy/gateway. Is there any information regarding OJS and OpenAthens? Thank you.
OJS Version 2.4.4.1

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Hi @radjr,

I’m not familiar with OpenAthens; if you’re using IP-based authentication, I’d suggest debugging it as usual: check your web server logs to see what IP address their requests are appearing as, and make sure that’s the IP address in your subscription. With proxies, it’s usually the proxy server’s IP address, not the client computer’s.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Thanks Alec, And where are those apache logs again? Curious as to why OJS does not create or have internal logs. Thanks.

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Hi @radjr,

The log location will depend on your server setup, but it’s normally something like access_log. It’s typical for access logs to be kept this way – having OJS log these additionally would be redundant.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team