Django with mod_wsgi on apache - error 500: authtype not installed?

Question

Trying to deploy my first django site to Dreamhost ... I had this job and then I'm not sure what I did to make it stop working.

This error message is:

[crit] [client 74.72.99.26] configuration error: couldn't perform authentication. AuthType not set!: /internal_error.html <VirtualHost :80> WSGIScriptAlias / /home/username/mysite.com/dir/project/wsgi.py <Directory /home/username/mysite.com/dir/project> <Files wsgi.py> Order deny,allow Require all granted </Files> </Directory> </VirtualHost> 

I can also include my wsgi.py information, but I do not think this is a problem, because, as I said, I worked on the site. Not sure if this is relevant or not, but I also tried to password protect my domain (I did this on my dreamhost dashboard) so that people couldn’t see my site as I try to deploy it - this is the only authentication I can think of this may cause this, but I have disabled password protection and I am still getting an error.

Answer 1

I had the same issue with Apache v 2.2 (Ubuntu). From the doc:

"If you are using an Apache version older than 2.4, replace Require all granted with Allow from all "

... and fixed it.