Settings#

Cubicweb Settings#

Pyramid CubicWeb will not make use of the configuration entries found in the cubicweb configuration (a.k.a. all-in-one.conf) for any pyramid related configuration value.

Pyramid Settings file#

In backwards compatibility mode, Pyramid settings will be looked for in a pyramid.ini file in the instance home directory (where the all-in-one.conf file is), its [main] section will be read and used as the settings of the pyramid Configurator.

This configuration file is almost the same as the one read by pserve, which allow to easily add any pyramid extension and configure it.

A typical pyramid.ini file is:

[main]
pyramid.includes =
    pyramid_redis_sessions

cubicweb.defaults = no
cubicweb.includes =
    cubicweb.pyramid.auth
    cubicweb.pyramid.login

cubicweb.profile = no

redis.sessions.secret = your_cookie_signing_secret
redis.sessions.timeout = 1200

redis.sessions.host = mywheezy

Without backwards compatibility a standard development.ini file can be used with any useful CubicWeb-specific settings added.

Pyramid CubicWeb configuration entries#

The Pyramid CubicWeb specific configuration entries are:

cubicweb.instance (string)#

A CubicWeb instance name. Useful when the application is not run by The ‘pyramid’ command.

cubicweb.debug (bool)#

Enables the cubicweb debugmode. Works only if the instance is setup by cubicweb.instance.

Unlike when the debugmode is set by the cubicweb-ctl pyramid --debug-mode command, the pyramid debug options are untouched.

cubicweb.includes (list)#

Same as pyramid.includes, but the includes are done after the cubicweb specific registry entries are initialized.

Useful to include extensions that requires these entries.

cubicweb.bwcompat (bool)#

(True) Enable/disable backward compatibility. This only applies to “all-in-one” configuration type.

See cubicweb.pyramid.bwcompat.

cubicweb.bwcompat.errorhandler (bool)#

(True) Enable/disable the backward compatibility error handler. Set to ‘no’ if you need to define your own error handlers.

cubicweb.defaults (bool)#

(True) Enable/disable defaults. See cubicweb.pyramid.defaults.

cubicweb.auth.update_login_time (bool)#

(True) Add a cubicweb.pyramid.auth.UpdateLoginTimeAuthenticationPolicy policy, that update the CWUser.login_time attribute when a user login.

cubicweb.auth.authtkt (bool)#

(True) Enables the 2 cookie-base auth policies, which activate/deactivate depending on the persistent argument passed to remember.

The default login views set persistent to True if a __setauthcookie parameters is passed to them, and evals to True in pyramid.settings.asbool().

The configuration values of the policies are arguments for pyramid.authentication.AuthTktAuthenticationPolicy.

The first policy handles session authentication. It doesn’t get activated if remember() is called with persistent=False:

cubicweb.auth.authtkt.session.cookie_name (str)#

(‘auth_tkt’) The cookie name. Must be different from the persistent authentication cookie name.

cubicweb.auth.authtkt.session.samesite (str)#

(‘auth_tkt’) Allows you to declare if your cookie should be restricted to a first-party or same-site context. See here for more information.

cubicweb.auth.authtkt.session.timeout (int)#
  1. Cookie timeout.

cubicweb.auth.authtkt.session.reissue_time (int)#
  1. Reissue time.

The second policy handles persistent authentication. It doesn’t get activated if remember() is called with persistent=True:

cubicweb.auth.authtkt.persistent.cookie_name (str)#

(‘auth_tkt’) The cookie name. Must be different from the session authentication cookie name.

cubicweb.auth.authtkt.persistent.samesite (str)#

(‘auth_tkt’) Allows you to declare if your cookie should be restricted to a first-party or same-site context. See here for more information.

cubicweb.auth.authtkt.persistent.max_age (int)#

(30 days) Max age in seconds.

cubicweb.auth.authtkt.persistent.reissue_time (int)#

(1 day) Reissue time in seconds.

Both policies set the secure flag to True by default, meaning that cookies will only be sent back over a secure connection (see Authentication Policies documentation for details). This can be configured through cubicweb.auth.authtkt.persistent.secure and cubicweb.auth.authtkt.session.secure configuration options.

cubicweb.auth.groups_principals (bool)#

(True) Setup a callback on the authentication stack that inject the user groups in the principals.