Philip Kilner wrote:
Hi Simon,
Simon J. Blandford wrote:
Can someone please tell me what changed between then and now. Is it Apache, FastCGI or Zope? Also, is there anyway I can get this system to work again without resorting to unsightly Virtualhostmonsters?
I'm not sure why you don't want to use VHM here, or why you think it's ugly. I've never had /any/ luck with FastCGI, so I'm approaching this from the other end of the spectrum...
Not sure what the situation is now but two years ago when I first tried using the "virtual site root" and proxy method there were some plug-ins/products that could not handle it. Is VHM the same? Once FastCGI was compiled it was 10x less complicated to implement than any other method. No modification was required to Zope. It just worked under http://hostname/Zope transparently with only a few extra lines in httpd.conf (as detailed in previous email). Easy!
In Zope (with Apache), you only need /install/ a VHM - it is 100% configuration free, and will happily sit in the root of your Zope install.
But does it work with 100% of the products?
In Apache, you just need a rewrite rule, which is not pretty but is not complicated either. See: -
http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/VirtualHosting.stx
...for the docs.
N.B. All my Apaches are 1.3.x - but I doubt if much if anything differs in 2.x...
Well, it looks like I'll have to bite the bullet and follow the new docs. It's only a little more hassle. I'm just curious to know if anyone remembers the old FastCGI method and what changed over the last two years to stop it working so transparently. Regards, SimonB