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Authenticating against Django's user database from Apache
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Since keeping multiple authentication databases in sync is a common problem when
dealing with Apache, you can configure Apache to authenticate against Django's
:doc:`authentication system </topics/auth/index>` directly. This requires Apache
version >= 2.2 and mod_wsgi >= 2.0. For example, you could:
* Serve static/media files directly from Apache only to authenticated users.
* Authenticate access to a Subversion_ repository against Django users with
a certain permission.
* Allow certain users to connect to a WebDAV share created with mod_dav_.
.. note::
If you have installed a :ref:`custom User model <auth-custom-user>` and
want to use this default auth handler, it must support an `is_active`
attribute. If you want to use group based authorization, your custom user
must have a relation named 'groups', referring to a related object that has
a 'name' field. You can also specify your own custom mod_wsgi
auth handler if your custom cannot conform to these requirements.
.. _Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/
.. _mod_dav: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_dav.html
Authentication with mod_wsgi
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Make sure that mod_wsgi is installed and activated and that you have
followed the steps to setup
:doc:`Apache with mod_wsgi </howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi>`
Next, edit your Apache configuration to add a location that you want
only authenticated users to be able to view:
.. code-block:: apache
WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/mysite.com/mysite/wsgi.py
WSGIProcessGroup %{GLOBAL}
WSGIApplicationGroup django
<Location "/secret">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Top Secret"
Require valid-user
AuthBasicProvider wsgi
WSGIAuthUserScript /path/to/mysite.com/mysite/wsgi.py
</Location>
The ``WSGIAuthUserScript`` directive tells mod_wsgi to execute the
``check_password`` function in specified wsgi script, passing the user name and
password that it receives from the prompt. In this example, the
``WSGIAuthUserScript`` is the same as the ``WSGIScriptAlias`` that defines your
application :doc:`that is created by django-admin.py startproject
</howto/deployment/wsgi/index>`.
.. admonition:: Using Apache 2.2 with authentication
Make sure that ``mod_auth_basic`` and ``mod_authz_user`` are loaded.
These might be compiled statically into Apache, or you might need to use
LoadModule to load them dynamically in your ``httpd.conf``:
.. code-block:: apache
LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
Finally, edit your WSGI script ``mysite.wsgi`` to tie Apache's authentication
to your site's authentication mechanisms by importing the ``check_password``
function:
.. code-block:: python
import os
import sys
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
from django.contrib.auth.handlers.modwsgi import check_password
from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler
application = WSGIHandler()
Requests beginning with ``/secret/`` will now require a user to authenticate.
The mod_wsgi `access control mechanisms documentation`_ provides additional
details and information about alternative methods of authentication.
.. _access control mechanisms documentation: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/AccessControlMechanisms
Authorization with mod_wsgi and Django groups
---------------------------------------------
mod_wsgi also provides functionality to restrict a particular location to
members of a group.
In this case, the Apache configuration should look like this:
.. code-block:: apache
WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/mysite.com/mysite/wsgi.py
WSGIProcessGroup %{GLOBAL}
WSGIApplicationGroup django
<Location "/secret">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Top Secret"
AuthBasicProvider wsgi
WSGIAuthUserScript /path/to/mysite.com/mysite/wsgi.py
WSGIAuthGroupScript /path/to/mysite.com/mysite/wsgi.py
Require group secret-agents
Require valid-user
</Location>
To support the ``WSGIAuthGroupScript`` directive, the same WSGI script
``mysite.wsgi`` must also import the ``groups_for_user`` function which
returns a list groups the given user belongs to.
.. code-block:: python
from django.contrib.auth.handlers.modwsgi import check_password, groups_for_user
Requests for ``/secret/`` will now also require user to be a member of the
"secret-agents" group.