[mod_python] Problem with win32 installation - can't authenticate

Thanks again for the excellent and fast response!!!

At 09:00 PM 7/10/2003 -0400, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:

>Thanks Jacob for the config -
>
>I figured it out - it has to do with the placement of LoadModule in the
>config file. I tend to put mine first, which makes mod_auth first in line
>to process, and it internally calls get_basic_auth_pw() thereby filling in
>the req.user value. But if you place mod_python after mod_auth, then
>mod_python is called first, and req->user is NULL (or req.user is None).
>
>I'll make sure this is corrected in the docs for the next release.
>
>Grisha
>
>On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jacob Martinson wrote:
>
> > Grisha,
> >
> > The browser comes back with a prompt again a number of times and then
> > eventually I end up at the access forbidden page.  The strangest thing just
> > happened though... I switched the order of getting the username and
> > password, and it started working!  I haven't changed anything in the apache
> > config between then and now.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Jacob
> >
> > At 07:50 PM 7/10/2003 -0400, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
> >
> >
> > >On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jacob Martinson wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am prompted for username/password, but I can't authenticate
> > > > successfully.  Also, if I ignore req.user and password and just return
> > > > apache.OK, it allows me to access the file I am requesting.
> > >
> > >When you say "can't authenticate" - does the browser come back with the
> > >user/password dialog, or some other thing?
> > >
> > >I just tried your example, and it worked for me.... In the old versions of
> > >apache you had to call to call get_basic_auth_pw() before trying to read
> > >value of req.user, but that's not longer true I think. May be tried
> > >swapping those two lines, but I think the problem is elsewhere.
> > >
> > >Grisha
> >