Troubleshooting

Turn on Django debug logging

If you run into any problems, set the logging level in Django to DEBUG. You can do this by adding the configuration below to your settings.py

You can see this logging in your console, or in you web server log if you’re using something like Apache with mod_wsgi.

More details about logging in Django can be found in the official Django documentation

LOGGING = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'formatters': {
        'verbose': {
            'format': '%(levelname)s %(asctime)s %(name)s %(message)s'
        },
    },
    'handlers': {
        'console': {
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
            'formatter': 'verbose'
        },
    },
    'loggers': {
        'django_auth_adfs': {
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'level': 'DEBUG',
        },
    },
}

Run Django with warnings enabled

Start the python interpreter that runs you Django with the -Wd parameter. This will show warnings that are otherwise suppressed.

python -Wd manage.py runserver

Have a look at the demo project

There’s an simple demo project available in the /demo folder and in the demo chapter of the documentation.

If you compare the files in the adfs folder with those in the formsbased folder, you’ll see what needs to be changed in a standard Django project to enable ADFS authentication.

Besides that, there are a couple of PowerShell scripts available that are used while provisioning the ADFS server for the demo. you can find them in the /vagrant folder in this repository. They might be useful to figure out what is wrong with the configuration of your ADFS server.

Note that they are only meant for getting a demo running. By no means are they meant to configure your ADFS server.