Resolved this just today. Get rid of the site root stuff. Use one single virtual host monster (VHM) at the root of the Zope site.

ProxyPass works great, Rewrite rules are good, but they're complicated and not as simple as proxy rules. I use Proxypass myself.

And this is something I learnt just today. It works with Zope 2.7 & Apache

You're missing some stuff in your setup. My Setup, the very basic Zope requires - <VirtualHost smishra.cbauh.com:80 > ProxyRequests On ProxyPass /z http://localhost:7080/VirtualHostBase/http/smishra.cbauh.com:80/apacheVirtua lHost/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_z/ ProxyPassReverse /z http://localhost:7080/VirtualHostBase/http/smishra.cbauh.com:80/apacheVirtua lHost/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_z/ ProxyPass /misc_ http://localhost:7080/VirtualHostBase/http/smishra.cbauh.com:80/VirtualHostR oot/misc_ ProxyPassReverse /misc_ http://localhost:7080/VirtualHostBase/http/smishra.cbauh.com:80/VirtualHostR oot/misc_ ProxyPass /p_ http://localhost:7080/VirtualHostBase/http/smishra.cbauh.com:80/VirtualHostR oot/p_ ProxyPassReverse /p_ http://localhost:7080/VirtualHostBase/http/smishra.cbauh.com:80/VirtualHostR oot/p_ ProxyPass /manage_page_style.css http://localhost:7080/VirtualHostBase/http/smishra.cbauh.com:80/VirtualHostR oot/manage_page_style.css ProxyPassReverse /manage_page_style.css http://localhost:7080/VirtualHostBase/http/smishra.cbauh.com:80/VirtualHostR oot/manage_page_style.css ProxyVia On </VirtualHost> I have Apache & zope installed on the same machine. Apache runs on port 80, zope on 7080. I'm serving a combination of static, dynamic, PHP generated content. Currently Zope content is accessed through http://smishra.cbauh.com/z/, and this URL serves content from http://<ZopeInstance>:8080/apacheVirtualHost. The last proxy setting is needed to get the management screens to display with the right style sheets. So far everything is working fine. This includes management screens. Note that if you have a root Zope folder named 'z', and that's what you want to access through Apache, then the above can be reduced to ProxyPass /z http://localhost:7080/VirtualHostBase/http/smishra.cbauh.com:80/VirtualHostR oot/z/ Also, you may have to experiment with the '/' at the ends. Perhaps you can help on some additions I need to make to my setup. Since I need to do pattern matching, I'm quite certain I need to use rewrite rules in Apache. I want to block access to all management screens on HTTP (port 80), and allow access to the management functions only through HTTPS. But I'd like to be "nice" about this. E.g., if a user tries to access http://smishra.cbauh.com/z/manage<ANYTHING> they would be re-directed to http://smishra.cbauh.com/z/ without being asked (a security feature). If you happen to come up with anything, do let me know. And as you're trying to pitch Zope, perhaps this may add fuel. One of the things I'm doing in Zope is generating PHP/HTML templates through Zope, saving the same on the local filesystem so Apache can do its stuff. We want to extend this to JSP too, I haven't had the time to figure this out yet. And I end up having to save templates to the local directory and then using APache PHP AddHandler stuff to render the PHP. I'd like to skip the saving to directory part and pipe the PHP stuff directly from Zope to Apache. Not sure if this makes sense... All the best. Samir. -----Original Message----- From: Ade Fewings [mailto:ade@informatics.bangor.ac.uk] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 20:08 To: sqmishra@acm.org Cc: samirmishra@cbuae.gov.ae Subject: Re: Apache 2 and Zope Integration CC'd to your other account just in case........ Hi Samir, Thanks a lot for your help. I created the Virtual Host Monster in the root of Zope and the directory 'Zope' in there as well for our dynamic content. The following is in my httpd.conf on a.b.com: ProxyPass /Zope http://a.b.com:81/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_Zope ProxyPassReverse /Zope http://a.b.com:81/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_Zope ProxyPass /misc_ http://a.b.com:81/misc_ ProxyPass /p_ http://a.b.com:81/p_ Unfortunately, i am finding that when i then browse to http://a.b.com/Zope/manage and log in, no further traffic is going thru the Apache proxy - instead, it is going straight to a.b.com:81 and not thru Apache on a.b.com:80. Have i messed something up? Cheers Ade Samir Mishra wrote: 2.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to the httpd.conf script, but look up how to use __vh__ (I think) in the VHM help docs. These are added to the site when you add a VHM object to your site.

If you don't have a good answer to your question by tomorrow, send me an email at samirmishra_at_cbuae.gov.ae and I'll help you out.

Jim Kutter wrote:

...

I got hit with the same snag when I first dove into this as well.

Don't use the Proxy stuff directly, use it via mod_rewrite. I forget where I finally found that info.

This is from my configs:

RewriteEngine on

# local requests for images redirect to real web server RewriteRule ^/web_resources(.*) http://<removed>/web_resources$1 [L,R] RewriteRule ^/web_images/style.css http://homer:8080/newsite/style.css [L,P] RewriteRule ^/web_images(.*) http://<removed>/web_images$1 [L,R] RewriteRule ^/z_images(.*) http://<removed>/z_images$1 [L,R]

# insider (zope content) RewriteRule ^/insider(.*) http://<removed>/VirtualHostBase/http/<removed>:80/sections/VirtualHostR oot/insider$1 [L,P]

Good luck!

-jim

-----Original Message----- From: Ade Fewings [mailto:ade@informatics.bangor.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:56 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Apache 2 and Zope Integration

Hi all,

I'm trying to persuade our powers-that-be that a switch-over to using Zope for our website would be "a good idea". For this, the best way for

me to achieve things is using Zope and the existing Apache stuff together. I've been following the guide at http://zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver for using Apache's Inverse Proxy ability to reach our Zope installation. However, I am having the problem that i have to log in twice to the management interface and then

when i come to log out of it, i get the following error from Apache:

The requested URL /manage_zmi_logout was not found on this server.

I have the following in httpd.conf [changed the names to protect the server]:

ProxyPass /Zope http://a.b.com:81/ ProxyPassReverse /Zope http://a.b.com:81/ ProxyPass /misc_ http://a.b.com:81/misc_ ProxyPass /p_ http://a.b.com:81/p_

I have also added the SiteRoot object in the management root.

Does anybody have any idea what i might have done wrong? Is it because we are using Apache 2 [2.0.48]?

Many thanks Ade

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