Many, many thanks!!! :) This pretty much does what I asked about in "Zope's Organization for Virtual Servers". Nice, clean seperation of Zope install from the user's database and products. Once again, mucho gracias senor. Jimmie Houchin At 12:53 PM -0800 3/10/99, Scott Robertson wrote:
I just uploaded this patch to the contrib section of the zope web site.
From the README....
INSTANCE PRODUCTS PATCH
This patch is useful for people who would like to run multiple instances of Zope from the same source directory, but have each instance have it's own database and product directories. Actually this patch allows each instance to share the Products in SOFTWARE_HOME/Products and to let the instance have it's own personal products under INSTANCE_HOME/Products.
SOFTWARE_HOME is an environment variable that points to the directory that Zope is installed in, normally Zope-version/lib/python. INSTANCE_HOME is an environment variable that points to the directory that contains the var directory which in itself contains the Zope Object Database, normally Zope-version/.
When Zope first starts, it loads all the products installed under SOFTWARE_HOME/Products/ into zope. Additionally if you set INSTANCE_HOME to point to a directory other than Zope-version/, Zope looks for a directory named var/ under INSTANCE_HOME and either creates the Object Database in that directory or opens the pre-existing one.
With this patch Zope will also look under INSTANCE_HOME/Products/ for additional products to install, if the environment variable ALLOW_INSTANCE_PRODUCTS equals 'Yes'.
The best way to accomplish all this is to use apache with pcgi and have something like the following lines in your configuration file.
--Example httpd.conf file------------------------------ #...Other configuration directives.
# Zope configuration maps / to the Zope.cgi CGI script and passes # authentication information.
RewriteEngine on RewriteOptions inherit RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*) RewriteRule ^/(.*) /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/$1 [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]
# Launch an instance of zope for this Virtual Host <VirtualHost www.bogus.com> ServerAdmin webmaster@bogus.com
# Inherit the above rewrite rule RewriteEngine on RewriteOptions inherit
DocumentRoot /home/bogus ServerName www.bogus.com SetEnv INSTANCE_HOME /home/bogus/ SetEnv PCGI_SOCKET_FILE /home/bogus/var/pcgi.soc SetEnv PCGI_PID_FILE /home/bogus/var/pcgi.pid SetEnv PCGI_ERROR_LOG /home/bogus/var/pcgi.log SetEnv ALLOW_INSTANCE_PRODUCTS Yes User bogus Group bogus </VirtualHost
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