The MoinMoin wiki has to be where documentation goes to die. I've never worked with a piece of software that has such crummy docs, everything is half done etc.. It makes a strong argument towards never using a Wiki for documentation.
Anyways, here's my recipe to get HTTP Digest authentication working with MoinMoin on apache2. It wasted some of my time to get it all right, so hopefully this helps someone since the docs won't.
Tested on apache2 on ubuntu.
Enable auth_digest:
# ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/auth_digest.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
Create your digest file:
# cd /etc/apache2 # htdigest -c nyaruka.digest nyaruka nicp Adding password for nicp in realm nyaruka. New password: ######### Re-type new password: ########
Edit your Moin apache2 config:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin admin@nyaruka.com ServerName wiki.nyaruka.com DocumentRoot /home/wiki/wiki <Location /> AuthType Digest AuthName "nyaruka" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/nyaruka.digest Require valid-user </Location> <IfModule mod_wsgi.c> # See the link below for an introduction about this mod_wsgi config. # http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi/browse_thread/thread/60cb0ec3041ac1bc/ WSGIPassAuthorization On WSGIScriptAlias / /home/wiki/wiki/moin.wsgi WSGIDaemonProcess wiki user=wiki group=wiki processes=7 threads=1 display-name=%{GROUP} WSGIProcessGroup wiki WSGIApplicationGroup wiki </IfModule> ErrorLog /home/wiki/logs/error.log LogLevel warn CustomLog /home/wiki/logs/access.log combined ServerSignature On </VirtualHost>Edit your MoinMoin wikiconfig.py, adding these lines in the LocalConfig object:
from MoinMoin.auth import GivenAuth auth = [GivenAuth(autocreate=True)] # presence (or absence) of 'given' auth name, e.g.: auth_methods_trusted = ['given', 'xmlrpc_applytoken']
Restart apache and things should work.