Greetings, Please read this if you use or want to use The second pre-release of Zap is available. http://www.zope.org/Download/Prereleases/Zap/Zap-1.1.0pre2-linux2-x86.tar.gz... There are two reasons for Zap: 1) To demonstrate a working copy of Zope with Apache for people to use as a model to get their own Zopes and Apaches working. This is proof-of-concept mode. 2) To provide our community with yet another way of publishing their objects. This is production-mode. Zope works with Apache. It may not be the easiest thing to set up, and there are some trickies that aren't usualy encountered with the other Zope methods, but in general, once you get the hang of setting Zope up with Apache it's pretty straightforward. Apache has many, many, many knobs on it. Out of the box Apache comes with all it's many, many, many knobs turned to 1) facilitate general filesystem and *traditional* CGI serving, and 2) be secure. Zope goes against the grain of item 1 because it's more advanced than a bunch of static HTML files and one-spawn-per-hit perl scripts. Item 2 offers a bit of dificulty because Apache comes configured to be highly-restrictive, with most opetions turned off by default. When you add new directives to Apache, you must often turn on specific functionality for that specific area. I am working on a FAQ for Zope and Apache. It is a bit bare because the most frequently asked question is "My Zope+Apache doesn't work, I get a 404! What's wrong?" This question will not go into the FAQ because it is too general; there are a whole lot of situations, many of them not related to Zope, which will cause you to get a 404. When I sent out the first pre-release I got one response, and that was from Paul. His comments reflect the second pre-release. So, from the developer to the community, I ask you to: 1) Please brainstorm up some questions; specific technical questions, (and the answer if you know it!) related to you experienced with getting Zope to work with Apache. 2) If you are are having problems with Zope and Apache, please download the pre-release, even if you don't intend to use it, just play with it, fondle it, tell me where it breaks for you, and examine it's configuration to see if it can help you with your specific problem with your Apache. Kudos go to Kevin Dangoor for his post today on getting Zope to work in .htaccess files, we didn't know that Apache would rewrite the whole environment when you use a RewriteRule in a .htaccess until Kevin butted up against it and provided us with accurate information. He has been given a patch which fixes his problem and will be availble in the next release. Remember, Zope is Open Source because we want your involvement, we thing your smarter than Microsoft does, we need your contributions, we are junkies for a bug fix, we're old levis looking for a patch, it's a community effort! Michel