AFAIK there are thousands of ways to combine Apache+Django for authentication.
Just to name a few: * no apache, just django: you can define custom authentication methods (or even Basic Auth) with django. See the docs [1] * apache handles authentication using django as the backend. See the docs [2]. This is described with mod_python, but mod_wsgi is possible as well, but I couldn't find the docs in 10 secs. * apache handles authentication, and passes the REMOTE_USER to your django site. Set the docs [3] * apache handles authentication, but still passess all the auth data to django: by default this won't happen with mod_wsgi, but can be allowed. See the docs of mod_wsgi. I hope you will find above the setting you are interested in. :) [1]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#other-authentication-sources [2]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/apache-auth/?from=olddocs [3]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/auth-remote-user/ have a nice day! On May 23, 11:57 am, Graham Dumpleton <graham.dumple...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 23, 5:59 am, palewire <ben.we...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > The default httpd.conf loaded on my CentOS server contains the > > following authentication modules. > > > LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so > > LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so > > LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so > > LoadModule authn_alias_module modules/mod_authn_alias.so > > LoadModule authn_anon_module modules/mod_authn_anon.so > > LoadModule authn_dbm_module modules/mod_authn_dbm.so > > LoadModule authn_default_module modules/mod_authn_default.so > > LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so > > LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so > > LoadModule authz_owner_module modules/mod_authz_owner.so > > LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so > > LoadModule authz_dbm_module modules/mod_authz_dbm.so > > LoadModule authz_default_module modules/mod_authz_default.so > > > I'm curious which, if any, of them are necessary to use Apache to > > solely run a Django application with authentication. I've consulted a > > few people I trust and received different answers, so I thought I'd > > just fire away a question here. > > > Thanks in advance for your expertise. I find this list a constant > > source of help and encouragement. > > You haven't supplied enough information. > > What type of authentication? Are you wanting to use HTTP Basic of > Digest authentication and have Apache handle it, or do you want to use > form/session based authentication with Django handling it? I suspect > you can also have Django handle HTTP Basic authentication as well. > > So, you are going to have to be clearer about what you are wanting to > do. > > Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
