Apache whitelist a single location, but require basic auth for everything else
- by Chris Lawlor
I'm sure this is simple, but Google is not my friend this morning.
The goal is:
/public... is openly accessible
everything else (including /) requires basic auth.
This is a WSGI app, with a single WSGI script (it's a django site, if that matters..)
I have this:
<Location /public>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Location>
<Directory />
AuthType Basic
AuthName "My Test Server"
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
</Directory>
With this configuration, basic auth works fine, but the Location directive is totally ignored. I'm not surprised, as according to this (see How the Sections are Merged), the Directory directive is processed first.
I'm sure I'm missing something, but since Directory applies to a filesystem location, and I really only have the one Directory at /, and it's a Location that I wish to allow access to, but Directory always overrides Location...
EDIT
I'm using Apache 2.2, which doesn't support AuthType None.
