Basic Authentication with Apache mod_wsgi

[Jorge Macias]

Hi. My app is working perfectly with basic auth under the traditional server provided with turbogears. The passwords are stored under the file passwd_file.  

Recently I move my app to Apache server  2.4.18  using mod wsgi.

I Installed python 3.5.2 in an ubuntu server 16.04 compiled with --enable-shared

I also compiled the mod_wsgi  version 4.6.4 and link it with my python 3.5.2 local installation. Also I validated with ldd mod_wsgi.so to check that everything is ok.

The app works fine under apache (with no errors) , but it fails to authenticate when the user enter a secure route.

I read that is necessary to pass WSGIPassAuthorization with on.

My Apache  tg2.conf as follows: 

<VirtualHost *:8080>

ServerName sun

 WSGIPassAuthorization On

 WSGIProcessGroup sun

 WSGIDaemonProcess sun user=wsgi group=wsgi threads=4 python-path=/home/wsgi/public_wsgi/.virtualenvs/tg2env/lib/python3.5/site-packages

 WSGIScriptAlias / /home/wsgi/public_wsgi/python.sun/app.wsgi

 <Location />

 WSGIPassAuthorization On

 </Location>

 #Serve static files directly without TurboGears

 Alias /images  /home/wsgi/public_wsgi/python.sun/pythonsun/public/images

 Alias /css /home/wsgi/public_wsgi/python.sun/pythonsun/public/css

 Alias /js /home/wsgi/public_wsgi/python.sun/pythonsun/public/js

 <Directory /home/wsgi/public_wsgi/python.sun/>

     WSGIProcessGroup sun

     WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}

     WSGIScriptReloading On

     Require all granted

 </Directory>

 ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

 CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

WSGIPythonHome /home/wsgi/public_wsgi/.virtualenvs/tg2env

WSGIPythonPath /home/wsgi/public_wsgi/.virtualenvs/tg2env/lib/python3.5

The authentication fails and i don't what i missing.

Any help would be appreciated

[Jorge Macias]

I've just found the error. 

In my app_cfg.py was set with a current directory

base_config.sa_auth.authenticators = [('htpasswd', HTPasswdPlugin('./passwd_file', plain_check))]

Apache could not find the file

using a full directory resolve the problem

base_config.sa_auth.authenticators = [('htpasswd', HTPasswdPlugin('/home/wsgi/public_wsgi/python.sun/passwd_file', plain_check))]

Anyway Thanks