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On Feb 20, 10:59 am, Jlcarroll <jlcarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I posted this a couple of days ago and didn't get a response. Thought
> that I might try again.
>
> I am creating a private genealogy web page of pictures/obituaries/data
> files/census records etc... all just a set of files within a directory
> structure. I just want Apache to index the directory's contents and
> the files within them and serve them over the web. That works fine.
> Then I wanted to restrict access, which also worked fine using
> standard .htaccess authentication.
>
> But then I want to integrate that into my django web page, and
> restrict access using the django user database instead of the external
> user database.
>
> When I set the contents of my .htaccess files as follows:
>
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "jlcarroll.net"
> Require valid-user
> SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE django_smug.settings
> PythonAuthenHandler django.contrib.auth.handlers.modpython
> pythonOption DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE django_smug.settings
> Options +Indexes
> SetHandler None
>
> Authentication works fine, and I can index the files, but the index
> doesn't show directories for some
> strange reason....
> The SetHandler None directive is there because
> I want Apache to index the
> files, and I haven't written a view to index them. I could write a
> view, but that is slower, and I am curious what is wrong, they are
> static files, so I would rather let Apache handle it.
>
> When I change the .htaccess file to the following:
>
> Options +Indexes
> SetHandler None
>
> It indexes files and directories, but of course has no authentication.
> I don't know why it would work without the django authentication but
> fail with that, since the Options +Inexes are the same. Perhaps
> django is setting some exclude directories flag while it is
> authenticating,
> not sure why it would do that, but it is all I could think of.
>
> when I set it to:
>
> AuthName "HohumRealm"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /home/jlc/Family.passwd
> require valid-user
> Options +Indexes
> SetHandler None
>
> Authentication works, and directories index, but (obviously) the user
> database is
> not synced to django's user database.
> If I have to use regular .htaccess authentication this isn't
> a deal killer, but it does mean that I
> can't use the same user/password list for both, which is a bother to
> my users (they have to create a user twice, and some of them are
> computer illiterate, and would get confused). Any ideas how to fix
> this? If it could be fixed, it would be a MUCH better solution than
> doing things the old-school way.
>
> Apache version is 2.2.9,
>
> What other information would be useful?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> James
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