hi darran, remove the slash both from "^/optics/(.*)" and just after Zope.cgi, so that your rule looks like: RewriteRule ^/optics(.*) /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi$1 <etc> this works just fine and dandy for me. jens

-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Darran Edmundson Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 18:44 To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope and Apache: root of ZODB reference problem?

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Have you tried removing the terminal slash in the rewrite rule?

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RewriteRule ^/optics/(.*) /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/$1 [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]

Do you mean "^/optics(.*)"??? I'm not at all familiar with Apache but I'd be very surprised if the above expands properly. (I'm not sysadmin so changes to httpd.conf require me to pester someone else.)