Authenticating against Django’s user database from Apache

Authenticating against Django’s user database from Apache

Since keeping multiple authentication databases in sync is a common problem when dealing with Apache, you can configure Apache to authenticate against Django’s authentication system 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 登录查看完整内容