This plugin allows to authenticate users using a running Django installation. It uses the session of Django, thus the users need to login via Django first. A connection to the Django database is required.

Search and install the plugin using the Extension Manager. Refer to Plugins on how to install plugins manually.

Set the following fields in Dokuwiki configuration

• authtype to authdjango
• Under plugin»authdjango set
  • protocol: Database type of Django database (currently supported: pgsql, mysql, sqlite)
  • server: Hostname or file (sqlite) of Django database
  • user: Database username of Django database (empty for sqlite)
  • db: Database name of Django database (empty for sqlite)
  • password: Database password for Django database (empty for sqlite)
  • logoff_uri: An URI that logs out a Django session (e.g. “https://example.com/accounts/logout/?next=/wiki/”)
  • admin_admin: Set if all Django admins should be dokuwiki admins
  • staff_admin: Set if all Django staff should be dokuwiki admins

Alternatively, set in conf/local.php:

$conf['authtype'] = 'authdjango';
$conf['plugin']['authdjango']['server'] = '';
$conf['plugin']['authdjango']['user'] = '';
$conf['plugin']['authdjango']['db'] = '';
$conf['plugin']['authdjango']['password'] = '';
$conf['plugin']['authdjango']['protocol'] = 'pgsql'; // or other, see PHP PDO documentation
$conf['plugin']['authdjango']['logoff_uri'] = '';
$conf['plugin']['authdjango']['admin_admin'] = 1;
$conf['plugin']['authdjango']['staff_admin'] = 0;

• 2025-04-19
  • Fixed CRITICAL bug that every Django user with an email address would get admin rights in dokuwiki
  • Fix bug that logout button was shown even if logoff URI was not set
• 2025-04-18
  • Support for Django 4 and newer
  • Make all users members of dokuwiki group 'users'
  • Options to make Django admins and staff members of dokuwiki group 'admin'
  • Add new config option to set logoff URI (enables logout button in dokuwiki)
• 2018-03-29
  • Add config defaults and config description strings
  • Some bugfixes
• 2018-03-29
  • Initial release, based on django

Note that as of Django 3.1, your Django project seems to require

  DEFAULT_HASHING_ALGORITHM='sha1' 

in your settings.py for this Authdjango plugin to read everything correctly. While that doesn't explicitly makes sense, for now it appears to be needed.

See the release notes for Django 3.1 for more details

[Update: ] With the new updates of this plugin to support Django 4, the setting above might no longer be necessary.