Glad you like the tutorial. Based on your comments I probably should update the post a bit. Here are some answers to your Qs.

1) you are probably using paster to create the controllers. in 0.9.6 they changed the name, but because I had upgraded from 0.9.5 I had the old folder names still. I’ll update this. Thanks
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2) Thanks. I’ll test it and update the post.
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3) Again, thanks. What don’t you understand about AuthKit?
Basically the way it works is by authenticating the user before he enters the code requiring auth. I put it in base.py: __before__() because base always gets called before entering the desired controller. Also, the __before__ method tells the program to execute that code before any other functions.

For example, if you were calling method add() in your FooController class, but you also defined a __before__ method in that class, then even though you are making a call to add(), __before__() will execute first.

Does that help?
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4) Rosetta was actually the app that I was using. I thought I renamed all instances to MYFIRSTAPP, but I guess not. I will change this. So, when I say “config[’pylons.h’] = rosetta.lib.helpers” I mean “config[’pylons.h’] = MYFIRSTAPP.lib.helpers”

5) [e.g. 2nd post] This may be a problem with Routes. Routes are executed from top to bottom, but as soon as it finds a regex match it will stop further processing and jump into the specified controller. Make sure /favicon.ico is going to the image and not a bogus controller. What is your signin method pointing to? All of my controllers require authentication, so I placed it in base. In this case, even though I said that /signin should go to the non-existant auth controller, it is actually being caught by lib/base.py first, and I’m defining the template there, so it never actually hits the authcontroller.

Does that help?

So, after I made changes needed just to squash all compile errors, I have this “Internal Server Error” on the browser page, and in the command prompt it says:
AssertionError: Forwarding loop detected; ‘/signin’ visited twice (internal redirect path: [’/favicon.ico’, ‘/signin’])

Do you have any idea what causes it and how to fix it?

Many thanks for the tutorial.

I have a few issues and questions, and I will post them in this page and Part 2 page.
Also, here’s my environment:
Python 2.5; Pylons 0.9.6.1; setuptools 0.6c8; PasteScript 1.6.2; SQLAlchemy 0.4.5; AuthKit 0.4.0
I run all these on Windows XP.

Ok, here we go.

1. I had to change MYFIRSTAPP.models to MYFIRSTAPP.model because it’s “model” instead of “models” in my Pylons project directory.

2. [code]app = authkit.authenticate.middleware(app, config_paste=app_conf)[/code]
I changed the second argument to “app_conf”
Please see http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pysbook/Authentication+and+Authorization#authentication-middleware

3. I think your development.ini is still using the “old convention” for AuthKit. This is what I have:
authkit.setup.enable = true
authkit.setup.method = forward
authkit.cookie.secret = a random dtk string
authkit.forward.internalpath = /signin
authkit.cookie.signout = /signout

Honestly, I don’t really understand how to use AuthKit, so your help will be appreciated.

4. Last thing for this page, a question:
How do you install Rosetta? Or perhaps it’s not possible at all on a Windows machine?

Thanks.

Jason Rakowski

Allen Taylor

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