HTTP Authentication for Django VirtualHost

If you want to protect a virtualhost with Django, you can use http basic authentication. The question is how  to protect your test site but not the production site (assuming they are both on the same server). Here is how to do it:

First generate your htppasswd file:

#htpasswd -c htpasswd user_name

assume we put the file in

/home/myusename/htpasswd

Second, assume the site you want to protect is called test.mysite.com on port 80

Put the following for your http configuration. In Ubuntu, it will be a file in your /etc/apach2/sites-enable/ directory

       setEnvIfNoCase HOST ^test\.mysite\.com\.?(:80)?$ PROTECTED_HOST

      
       #put this in your location directive

            AuthUserFile /home/myusername/htpasswd

            AuthType Basic

            AuthName "this site is password protected :)"

            Order Deny,Allow

            Satisfy any

            Deny from all

            Require valid-user

            Allow from env=!PROTECTED_HOST

       

This configuration, will pop up password for test.mysite.com on port 80.