What is the best way to password-protect a Django site?

jopalacios

I used to use basic auth on httpd.conf but that is not available in the Opal setup. Wondering how I can go about doing this. Thanks!

sean

jopalacios uWSGI supports basic auth.

To enable it, create your .htpasswd file in your app directory then add the following to your uwsgi.ini replacing "shelluser" and "appname" with your own:

route = .* basicauth:MyApp,/home/shelluser/apps/appname/.htpasswd

Restart your app after making that change.

jopalacios

Thanks for the info! Worked great! I had to use the -d flag creating compatible password file. Thank you

anna

What should MyApp be replaced with in the above command? I've tried using the app name. I see the basic-auth dialogue appear, but it does not accept the username/password combination I specified in the .htpasswd file.

sean

anna MyApp can be anything, it shows up as the realm name in the auth dialog.

Please ensure that you used the -d flag when creating your password file and that the path to the password file is correct.