Brian Takashi Hooper
Hi all,
I'm setting up Zope to use FastCGI w/ Apache, I followed the How-to by kedai on zope.org and got most of the way, however I still have a few questions:
1. I want to serve my site with the root URL as FastCGI but be able to have absolute URLs sans hostname (i.e. <a href="/images/foo.gif">) resolve properly... if I just use a simple rewrite rule like:
From my experiences, I'd suggest that you go with with the proxy/reverse-proxy/SiteAccess configuration unless you want to do SSL.
... RewriteRule ^/(.*) /fcgi/$1 [PT]
then the top page works, but all the links off this page are based off of <base href>, which gets set to something like http://myhost/fcgi.
Base href seems to be inferred by doing some stuff with the SERVER_URL and SCRIPT_NAME environment variables; SCRIPT_NAME gets passed from pcgi set to my FastCGI script name, /fcgi. Is there a good way within the CGI protocol that I can tell Zope that it should ignore SCRIPT_NAME when deciding the base href of my site, since I'm rewriting the URL so that stuff without the /fcgi will get there?
For now, I just added a hack to HTTPRequest.py, but as you can imagine, it's ugly :-(. What's the RWTDT right way to do this?
Look into the SiteAccess package. I think it'll do most of what you want.
2. I also would like to preserve ScriptAlias and Alias directories on the Apache side more nicely - right now it seems like if I line up some additional rewrite rules for /cgi-bin/, etc. before the fcgi rewrite rule, like:
RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/(.*) /cgi-bin/$1 [L,PT] RewriteRule ^/(.*) /fcgi/$1 [PT]
the annoying thing is that sometimes URLs end up passing through the Rewrite engine twice as well (explanation: a Pass-Through is necessary
Try : RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/.* - [L] Essentially, this says do nothing and don't rewrite the url further. I don't think that the passthrough is necessary if you aren't really rewriting anything. I've used this with aliased directories, but not with script-aliased directories, so it may not work. Another thing, check your <DIRECTORY "/usr/.../cgi-bin/">...</DIRECTORY> directive to make sure its proper.
in order to get mod_alias to handle /cgi-bin as a ScriptAlias-ed directory; however, if there's any URL left at that point, i.e. /cgi-bin/myscript/foo/, then /foo/ travels through the Rewrite engine again, according to the logs). This is more of an Apache question than a Zope question - however I think this is also of interest to others who might want to integrate Zope into their existing setup, so if anyone has any suggestions... :-) !
Brian Hooper
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