* jornd@falch.net (JXrn Helge B. Dahl)

On a second thought: What I _really_ want (I think, unless someone tells me differently :-) ) is a conditional ProxyPass, to tell apache to redirect everything _unless_ the URI is /static (or something).

But this is probably something for apache geeks.

Jørn, I ain't no apache geek, but I took a look at two nice how-tos on zope.org. The first one http://www.zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver/ describes how to get apache to work with zope via proxypass etc., and the second one describes how to achieve what you describe above ... and I don't find it anymore on zope.org :( Anyway, this is what you want: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/local/ - [L] RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:10080/my_host/$1 [P] The [L] stops the rewriting-process if and only if the uri is of the form http://yourhostname/local/ If not it goes on and passes the request to localhost port 10080, directory my_host, where zope resides (at least on my server). Combine that with virtual-host directive of apache and you are as flexibel as one can get. Naturally /local need not to be the only folder which isn't proxied to zope. The only problem is that apache doesn't care for zope's authentication machinery, I would love to have a module for apache which could enable that (nice dream...). But it may be solvable by using mysql/postgres as a userdatabase for zope & apache... cheers, oliver