Digest Auth in Django

It says here that Apache for WebDav apps doesn't have HTTP Digest Authentication compiled in:

http://community.webfaction.com/questions/3661/digest-authentication-for-webdav

Is that the case for Django apps too? Or is our Digest authentication just not being passed on by the Nginx proxy or something?

asked Jun 08 '12 at 16:50

nkm
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The apache stack that process WebDav is not the same as the apache stack that serves your Django. Digest is offered by the apache stack with this .so file,

1	-rwxr-xr-x 1 tmt tmt 61452 Feb 16 2011 mod_auth_digest.so

You will have to check httpd.conf to see if it is really enabled, it is not by default,

1	LoadModule digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so

answered Jun 08 '12 at 18:16

johns ♦♦
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Thank you! We've added that line to httpd.conf (it actually seems to require "auth_digest_module" rather than "digest_module") and successfully restarted Apache, but are still unable to authenticate.

Does Nginx pass all headers through to Apache, or might it be intercepting our WWW-Authenticate header? How can we best troubleshoot that?

EDIT: It was a WSGI issue. An additional directive is required to let Django rather than Apache handle the authentication:

WSGIPassAuthorization On

(Jun 11 '12 at 09:35) nkm

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