Oracle SSO Failure - Unable to process request Either the requested URL was not specified in terms of a fully-qualified host name or OHS single sign-on is incorrectly configured

Today, during a cutover when we were moving one of our ERP instance on Cisco UCS VMware VMs to Exalogic and Exadata, I got a call from Bimal.  The extranet iSupplier URL had been configured, but whenever any user logged in, they were seeing the following error instead of the iSupplier OAF Home page:

Oracle SSO Failure - Unable to process request Either the requested URL was not specified in terms of a fully-qualified host name or OHS single sign-on is incorrectly configured

A search on support.oracle.com showed many hits.  I went through a few of them and ruled out the solutions given. This article sounded promising: Oracle SSO Failure - Unable to process request Either the requested URL was not specified in terms of a fully-qualified host name or OHS single sign-on is incorrectly configured (Doc ID 1474474.1).

The solution suggested:

There is  a hardware load-balancer for a multi-tier environment on place, as well as an SSL accelerator.

     For R12, there is a context variable, s_enable_sslterminator, that was set to "#".

     This should be null for e-Business R12 using specific hardwarementioned before.


1. Set  context variable, s_enable_sslterminator to null,

2. Re-ran autoconfig,

3. Re-test Single sign-ons via IE and Firefox now works as expected.

I asked the DBAs to check the value of s_enable_sslterminator:

grep s_enable_sslterminator

and sure enough the value was #

As per article Enabling SSL or TLS in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Doc ID 376700.1), the value of s_enable_sslterminator should be made null if you are using an SSL accelerator.  In our case we use SSL certificate on the Load Balancer and never on Web servers.

The DBAs removed the #
Ran autoconfig
Deregistered SSO
Registered SSO

The user was able to login after that.