I think you missed the point. The main reason to ditch it is the fact that there is no one who is willing and able to support the code for it in Zope. Just because someone comes up with a combination where FCGI might have a benefit still does not give us a developer to support it. jens On 21 Dec 2005, at 04:48, David Bear wrote:

could this be one reason to keep fastcgi?

On 12/19/05, Robert Boyd <robert.h.boyd@gmail.com> wrote: I'm using Apache 2.0, and I cannot find a solution to passing the value of REMOTE_USER from Apache to Zope when using a rewrite rule. I have Apache rewriting requests for Zope, and hooked into Tomcat with mod_jk. My users login through a servlet, and Apache has REMOTE_USER available to it. But any subsequent request to Zope loses this value. I used to have this all working when using FastCGI, but I'm hoping to use only mod_rewrite. Is it possible?

Thanks, Rob

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Regardless, REMOTE_USER is just an environment variable, and if you can *prove* it's being set in Apache but not passed to Zope, I'd be surprised.

You can also use Apache directives to do this as well. It's been a while but SetEnv does spring to mind...

It's an environment variable in the Authorization headers, which are (in my limited knowledge) not treated the same as variables in request headers. I have found no mention of how to achieve this in purely redirect/proxy setups; only through CGI or CGI-like setups. SetEnv does not work, at least not in the form SetEnv REMOTE_USER %{REMOTE_USER} or SetEnv REMOTE_USER %LA-U:{REMOTE_USER} I also tried mod_headers to no avail. Every example of Zope-Apache configuration that I've found so far says that when needing to pass remote user, you cannot go with the proxy/rewrite route. If anyone has a working config proving this wrong, please enlighten me. FWIW, my situation is a Shibboleth setup where I wrote a customized Cookie Crumbler to recognize the identity of an authenticated user requesting a Zope CMF site. It identifies the principal's user id through REMOTE_USER. FastCGI with Zope has been flakey for me in the past and therefore I'd like to take it out of the equation. Rob