This very simple middleware will set the 'user' attribute of a mod_python request.. this way the username is logged into the apache log ... useful when making webalizer statistics to see the activity of users .. (http://sct.sphene.net)
This is a piece of middleware that reports the logged-in user back to Apache. This should cause the logged-in user to be present in the apache access log. Put it in `settings.MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES` after `AuthenticationMiddleware`. This has been tested with mod_python but does [not work with wsgi](http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi/browse_thread/thread/8785a99d4ba7ee99).
The solution is based on [dballanc's snippet](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/420/). Can easily be combined with any of the [SQL tracing solutions](http://www.djangosnippets.org/tags/debug/). You might want to run a separate logging server and redirect your logs there. Please refer to the [logging reference manual](http://docs.python.org/lib/module-logging.html).
This handler is useful if you serve static/media files directly from Apache only to authenticated users. It checks if a user is not anonymous (and therefore logged in) and redirects to the login site if needed. The following apache config activates the handler: <Location "/site_media/company1"> #SetHandler None ##Uncomment if you serve static files in the same virtual host PythonOption DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings PythonAuthenHandler mysite.myhandler PythonPath "['/path/to/project'] + sys.path" Require valid-user </Location>