I spent over an hour trying to figure out why I wasn’t able

to do basic authentication in a web2py service before I ran across a prior post that described this essential step.

If you’re using Apache with mod_wsgi and you want to use basic

authentication with a web2py service, don’t forget to add the line

“WSGIPassAuthorization On” to wsgi.conf under /etc/apache2/mods-

enabled.

Or in your vhost settings:

ServerName www.mainserver.com

ServerAlias super.alias.nl mainserver.com

WSGIDaemonProcess mainserver user=appuser group=appuser \

display-name=%{GROUP}

WSGIProcessGroup mainserver

WSGIScriptAlias / /webapps/mainserver/wsgihandler.py

WSGIPassAuthorization On