[Repoze-dev] tg.repoze.who and ProxyPass

Sun May 11 18:20:31 EDT 2008

Since the tg.repoze.who creates a paster app, I don't really see why
the page could not know where in the url path it should direct
people.  I am ccing Alberto in the hopes that he can help us clear
this stuff up.

cheers.
-chris

On May 9, 5:32 pm, Chris McDonough <chr... at plope.com> wrote:
> It's statically configured now.  The plugin itself would need to change to
> support redirecting to a dynamic URL.
>
> If you weren't up for changing the plugin, you could *try* using the
> "non-redirecting" form plugin (replace the call to "form = RedirectingFormPlugin
> ..." with what's below).  This plugin renders a login form directly without
> needing to redirect:
>
> FORMBODY = """
> <html>
> <head>
>    <title>Log In</title>
> </head>
> <body>
>    <div>
>       <b>Log In</b>
>    </div>
>    <br/>
>    <form method="POST" action="?__do_login=true">
>      <table border="0">
>      <tr>
>        <td>User Name</td>
>        <td><input type="text" name="login"></input></td>
>      </tr>
>      <tr>
>        <td>Password</td>
>       <td><input type="password" name="password"></input></td>
>      </tr>
>      <tr>
>        <td></td>
>        <td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Log In"/></td>
>      </tr>
>      </table>
>    </form>
>    <pre>
>    </pre>
> </body>
> </html>
> """
> form = FormPlugin(login_qs='__do_login', rememberer_name='cookie', FORMBODY)
>
> - C
>
>
>
> percious wrote:
> > Yeah, I realized that.  I was just wondering, how can I get it to
> > automatically figure out the paste prefix?  This is something that
> > goes off without a hitch in toscawidgets.
>
> > cheers.
> > -chris
>
> > On May 9, 5:15 pm, Chris McDonough <chr... at plope.com> wrote:
> >> I think what you might be seeing if you're using the configuration of repoze.who
> >> implied byhttp://svn.turbogears.org/projects/tgrepozewho/trunk/tgrepozewho/midd...
> >> is that the thing that shows the challenge (the form plugin) is configured
> >> statically, e.g. (from that file):
>
> >>      form = RedirectingFormPlugin('/login', '/login_handler', '/logout_handler',
> >>                                   rememberer_name='cookie')
>
> >> The first argument there is the "login_form_url".  That's the URL that
> >> repoze.who will redirect to when a login is required.  You probably need to
> >> change this to support your environment.
>
> >> - C
>
> >> percious wrote:
> >>> So, I almost have my project up and running on the production server.
> >>> The thing is, I have a large server with many applications, and they
> >>> are all mounted at the highest level of the global tree: ie
> >>>http://my.ip.address.com/plone
> >>>http://my.ip.address.com/tg2app
> >>> All the applications are routed with apache using:
> >>> <VirtualHost *>
> >>>           DocumentRoot /my/tg2app/public
> >>>           ProxyPass /tg2app/http://127.0.0.1:8080/
> >>>           ProxyPassReverse /tg2app/http://127.0.0.1:8080/
> >>>       ...
> >>> </VirtualHost>
> >>> ok, so this all works fine with wsgi, all I have to do is add
> >>> something like:
> >>> [filter:proxy-prefix]
> >>> use = egg:PasteDeploy#prefix
> >>> prefix = /tg2app
> >>> [app:main]
> >>> filter-with = proxy-prefix
> >>> to my ini file and it works.
> >>> Until I go to login.
> >>> For whatever reason, the login script keeps sending me back to the
> >>> root...  Is there a fix for this?
> >>> Also, once I have that working, it appears that I will have a
> >>> requirement to authenticate using Apache's authentication (ick) is
> >>> there a way to send the Apache Authentication over to repoze.who?
> >>> cheers.
> >>> -chris
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