External authentication using Headervariable

Hi SAP Experts
We have configured External authentication for WEM using Headervariable.We are using BI Java 7.0
External authentication is working fine using Headervariable Login module for URL http://<WEb Server hostname>/irj which redirect to http://<J2EE hostname>:<port #>/irj
As you all know that we also use http://<J2EE hostname>:<port #> for Administation point of view where many options available like user management, SLD, Webdynpro, NetWeaver Administation etc.We have not configured this URL for External Authentication and also do not want to configure but when tyring to access any administration option on this, portal prompts default logon page and after entering Portal UserID/Password we get message like " No Loginmodules configured for Header"
I do not know why system display this message
Please help me if anyone has experience to resolve this issue, as we want to use URL http://<J2EE hostname:<port #>, which should prompts Portal Logon screen and after entering Portal userid/password we should access the administration screen without afftecting our External Authentication configuration for URL http://<WEb Server host>/irj
Thanks in Advance
Thanks with Regards
Deelip Kumar

Hi Deelip,
my earlier post referred to an additional authscheme that you may have created. If you have done so, please remove it. If you have checked this, there still is a predelivered authscheme called header, wich references a login stack called header. This login stack template does not exist as a default.
In this case, you may have assigned this authscheme (header) to some component, like an iview. How this works is explained in the docs <a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/54/f91fba71ae48309e4267b4a36fa47b/frameset.htm">here</a> and<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/54/a334ed5bbfd5488b8cdd67b2c594a9/frameset.htm">here</a> for example.
If you have done so, this reference to the authscheme header may trigger the lookup of the login stack template called header, which does not exist and thus leads to the error.
For detailed error analysis, I would recommend to search the security log and the portal logs for indications where the source of this error might be.
Regards,
Patrick

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