Thank you!
I’ve already found the Dex issue when looking around to find similar problems ( OOD 2.0.13 update_ood_portal and oidc configuration - #7 by jeff.ohrstrom ). I am not quite sure what to uninstall to remove ondemand-dex, so a clarification would be appreciated there. Doing a very crude search (matching all file/dirnames to ‘dex’ ! ’index’) I couldn’t find any ondemand-dex. In any case, I have not (willingly) installed it per 1. Install Software — Open OnDemand 4.0.0 documentation .
I have not seen ‘not replacing’ messages come by, in fact I ran update_ood_portal with -f by default because of the issues I was encountering. I have also occasionally deleted all ood-portal.conf to be sure no ‘old version’ was creeping out of somewhere.
Regarding the journalctl, below is the (relevant, private data removed) output of journalctl -xeu httpd'. This is with the included ood-oidc.conf file providing OpenID Connect data to httpd:
Sep 16 21:14:12 <server> systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
░░ Subject: A start job for unit httpd.service has begun execution
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://wiki.rockylinux.org/rocky/support
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░░ A start job for unit httpd.service has begun execution.
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░░ The job identifier is 26140.
Sep 16 21:14:12 <server> update_ood_portal[85837]: No change in Apache config.
Sep 16 21:14:12 <server> httpd[85860]: Server configured, listening on: port 443, port 80
Sep 16 21:14:12 <server> systemd[1]: Started The Apache HTTP Server.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit httpd.service has finished successfully
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://wiki.rockylinux.org/rocky/support
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░░ A start job for unit httpd.service has finished successfully.
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░░ The job identifier is 26140.