PGAdmin with Postgres backend and web auth

Hi list, I’m trying to setup two versions of PGAdmin, 6.12 and latest, using dockerhub images running on RH9.  I’m fronting this with HTTPD as a reverse proxy and authentication layer. 

Here’s the commandline I’m using to run both versions:

/usr/bin/podman run \

        -e PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL=$MYEMAIL \

        -e "PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD=$PASSWORD" \

        -e "PGADMIN_CONFIG_AUTHENTICATION_SOURCES=['webserver']" \

        -e PGADMIN_CONFIG_WEBSERVER_AUTO_CREATE_USER=True \

        -e PGADMIN_CONFIG_MASTER_PASSWORD_REQUIRED=False \

        -e "PGADMIN_CONFIG_CONFIG_DATABASE_URI='postgresql://$PGUSER:$PGPASS@$PGHOST:5432/$PGDB" \

        -e 'PGADMIN_CONFIG_CONSOLE_LOG_LEVEL=10' \

        --conmon-pidfile %t/%n-pid  \

        --cidfile %t/%n-cid \

        --privileged  \

        -p 127.0.0.1:8081:80 \

        -v /var/lib/pgadmin/%N:/var/lib/pgadmin \

        --name %N \

        docker.io/dpage/pgadmin4:$VERSION

This works perfectly with 6.12.  I can connect with the web browser and go to PGAdmin, and I’m logged in as I expected to be. 

With latest I keep getting the messages “webserver authenticate failed” from PGAdmin, and I keep landing at the PGAdmin login screen despite having internal authentication disabled. 

I’m seeing these syslog messages:
Jul 17 15:06:11 pgadmin.na.lzb.hq pgadmin[452429]: 2024-07-17 19:06:11,292: DEBUG        pgadmin:        Authentication initiated via source: webserver

Jul 17 15:06:11 pgadmin.na.lzb.hq pgadmin.service[452271]: 2024-07-17 19:06:11,292: DEBUG        pgadmin:        Authentication initiated via source: webserver

Jul 17 15:06:11 pgadmin.na.lzb.hq pgadmin[452429]: 2024-07-17 19:06:11,293: DEBUG        pgadmin:        Authentication initiated via source: webserver is failed.

Jul 17 15:06:11 pgadmin.na.lzb.hq pgadmin.service[452271]: 2024-07-17 19:06:11,293: DEBUG        pgadmin:        Authentication initiated via source: webserver is failed.

I thought maybe it wasn’t picking up the default email and password so I tried every combination I could think of for quoting default email and password, with no improvement.  The default email and password don’t work on the login screen and I never get into PGAdmin.   I can’t figure out why it works on the old version but not the new version.  I know I don’t need the mount on /var/lib/pgadmin with the database, that’s just there because I haven’t taken it out yet.  With the database config that directory is empty anyway.

Any ideas?