Apache auth recipe works but gives error in error_log in Apache 2.2

[trbs]

The recipe on the documentation page ​Authenticating against Django’s user database from Apache:

[Sat Feb 16 00:40:01 2008] [error] [client localhost] (9)Bad file descriptor: Could not open password file: (null), referer: https://localhost/media/adminmedia/css/global.css

The solution for me was to include the AuthUserFile /dev/null directive to the Location tag:

<Location /example/>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "example.com"
    AuthBasicAuthoritative Off
    AuthUserFile /dev/null
    Require valid-user

    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings
    PythonAuthenHandler django.contrib.auth.handlers.modpython
</Location>

Although the title of this ticket says Apache 2.2, i have not tested this on other Apache versions.

Without the AuthUserFile /dev/null directive everything works fine however apache prints the error log message for each request that uses the authentication handler. Which grows the error_log with inappropriate messages, so i think it's useful to add this to the documentation page.

[Simon Greenhill]

Could this be an apache bug?

[trbs]

if i remember correctly this had something todo with the changes to mod_auth in apache 2.2

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

This should only be required for Apache 2.2, so I'm going to make the change specific to that section only.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Fixed in [7804].