1.1 --- a/docs/ModPython/NOTES.txt Tue Jul 12 14:12:01 2005 +0000
1.2 +++ b/docs/ModPython/NOTES.txt Tue Jul 12 14:12:14 2005 +0000
1.3 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
1.4 -Configuring Apache:
1.5 +Configuring Apache
1.6 +==================
1.7
1.8 To configure applications without authenticators, use the config.py script
1.9 in tools/Apache to set up mod_python applications. For example:
1.10 @@ -11,11 +12,17 @@
1.11 /cookies \
1.12 .cookies
1.13
1.14 -This script can also be used to configure CGI applications.
1.15 +This script can also be used to configure CGI applications. Run the script
1.16 +without any arguments to see the documentation.
1.17 +
1.18 +With the above command, the "cookies" application should be visitable with
1.19 +URLs resembling these:
1.20
1.21 ---------
1.22 +http://localhost/cookies/test.cookies
1.23 +http://localhost/cookies/my.cookies
1.24
1.25 -The manual approach:
1.26 +The Manual Approach
1.27 +-------------------
1.28
1.29 For each application, add an Alias line to httpd.conf to point to the directory
1.30 containing the handler package, then specify the appropriate module name as the
1.31 @@ -51,9 +58,8 @@
1.32 /agenda/my-agenda.simple
1.33 /simple/tasks/my-tasks.simple
1.34
1.35 ---------
1.36 -
1.37 -Authentication/authorisation in mod_python:
1.38 +Authentication/Authorisation in mod_python
1.39 +==========================================
1.40
1.41 Apache imposes fairly strict controls over authentication, requiring the
1.42 addition of various declarations in the configuration in order to impose
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1.44 the users file and the appropriate access policy, must obviously be defined
1.45 according to the actual application concerned.
1.46
1.47 ---------
1.48 -
1.49 -Session storage with mod_python:
1.50 +Session Storage with mod_python
1.51 +===============================
1.52
1.53 The very simple SessionStore class provided in WebStack.Helpers.Session, and
1.54 used by the WebStack.ModPython.Transaction class, requires that a directory be