My piston application works correctly when I run it locally with python manage.py runserver command but returns
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403:
FORBIDDEN
under apache. How can I debug django-piston application?
I usually debug Piston apps by:
Setting my handlers to use Basic Authentication, even if I'm normally using something else.
Use curl to make requests
Use pdb (or ipdb) to set a breakpoint in my handler if desired.
You can conditionally change to BasicAuthentication like this:
auth = {'authentication': WhateverYouAreUsingForAuthentication(realm="YourSite")}
if getattr(settings, "API_DEBUG", None):
from piston.authentication import HttpBasicAuthentication
auth = {'authentication': HttpBasicAuthentication(realm="Spling")}
some_handler = Resource(SomeHandler, **auth)
To pass a username and password using curl, use the -u option:
curl -u username:password http://localhost:8000/api/some/endpoint/
So in your local settings module, just set API_DEBUG=True whenever you want to use basic auth.