Authentication not working

[zunjae]

I keep getting the error WARNING:root:flask-profiler authentication failed when I have flask-profiler and auth enabled. Here's my code

app.config["flask_profiler"] = {
    "enabled": True,
    "storage": {
        "FILE": "/var/www/TestApp/flask-profiler.sql",
        "engine": "sqlite"
    },
    "basicAuth": {
        "enabled": True,
        "username": "admin",
        "password": "admin"
    },
    "ignore": [
        "^/account/.*"
    ]
}

The only way to get into flask-profiler is if I disable basicAuth - enabled but I obviously don't want the rest of the world to see my stats. I can verify that the file /var/www/TestApp/flask-profiler.sql is writable as it is about 9MB now.

How do I troubleshoot what is wrong here? The logs don't say much.

[zunjae]

I tried to login through curl (curl -v -u admin:admin SITE) and analyzed the headers and response. the Authorization header is send correctly, however the client still denies it and sends back a 401 status code.

[zunjae]

so I only have this issue on a production server, not locally...

so using common sense I googled "WSGI basic authorization not working" and learned that I need to put WSGIPassAuthorization On in my apache config file.

This issue is not related to your library, however I'm sure other people will have this issue as well.