Thanks for responding and for the idea. I'm also migrating, but security seems to be a bigger deal than getting the rest migrated at the moment, hence the need to authenticate for the old stuff.
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 16:43 -0700, BenW wrote: > I did something similar while migrating an old app to Django. Since > auth was the first step for me in the migration, I set up the users > and session data in a table accessible by both apps and used Django > for auth while I migrated the rest. This method requires sharing a > secret between three entities though (browser/django/old app) > > On Jun 5, 1:26 pm, Adam Stein <a...@eng.mc.xerox.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to figure out a way to use Django authentication to control > > access to web pages (on the same web server) that are NOT under Django. > > > > I have found some information regarding setting up Apache for basic > > authentication using mod_wsgi, but in this case Apache puts up it's own > > login window. > > > > I'm looking for a solution using Django and/or Apache directives that > > would put up Django's login page. It should look exactly the same as if > > the URL were under Django control. > > > > Has anyone done anything like this? I'm currently using Django v1.0.2 > > and Apache v2.2 but can upgrade either if necessary. > > -- > > Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation Email: a...@eng.mc.xerox.com > > > > Disclaimer: Any/All views expressed > > here have been proven to be my own. [http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/] > -- Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation Email: a...@eng.mc.xerox.com Disclaimer: Any/All views expressed here have been proven to be my own. [http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
