I tried using the isapi filter and it only sort of works. Any links of the first page use the original address not the one that was filtered. What I would like is for it to be completely transparent ie all links point to the virtual directory not the exe file. I assume this doesn't work because of the BASE tag that zope puts in the header. It also won't work because of my use of BASE0..n tags etc. How can these problems be overcome?
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Lloyd [mailto:Brian@digicool.com] Sent: Thursday, 15 April 1999 23:58 To: 'Jay, Dylan'; 'zope@zope.org' Subject: RE: [Zope] Has anyone tried to make Zope invisible using IIS
I basically want to make a virtual directory that points to everything on the other side of the PCGI exe file however stupid IIS seems to be only able to make a real directory a virtual directory. Has anyone found a way around that?
Isn't IIS great? :^)
I spent some time looking into this about a year ago, and found that the only way to do this (at least at that time) was to write an IIS filter dll in C. I imagine that look on your face right now about matches the one on mine when I came to this conclusion... :)
I've attached a .zip file containing the msvc++ project and sources for a _very_ minimal, hard-coded url alias filter - it worked with IIS3, but I can make no guarantees about IIS4+.
There's no documentation for it (though the code is quite tiny) and it's _totally_ unsupported, so you'll have to look to MS' IIS extension/filter documentation for details on how to get it installed, built, what it's doing, etc. Hopefully it's a start though.
I'm sure that the Zope community would love to see a more flexible version of it though, if you'd care to fix it up :^)
Hope this helps!
Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com