[Zope] httpd.conf help

Here's the scenario that I'm dealing with (all of this works w/o Zope, i.e. static content): - user starts at www.mydomain.edu (http) - user goes to www.mydomain.edu/internal which is secure (https) and requires a password for entry - all pages under www.mydomain.edu/internal are secure (https) I'm having trouble getting this to work with out Zope-ified site, however. What I would like is to have Apache handle all password authentication, and I would like it to happen over ssl. Is this possible at all? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Erick Mechler