Getting Zope (2.5, anyway) to recognize the https instead of http is tricky. One common workaround is to put a DTML Doc called is_https that manually specifies whether the pages below its containing folder should be served https. You might be better off using a different workaround, which is to put a method in the root folder called admin. This method has one line: <dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect('https://my_server_url/manage') Or something like that. Make the method available to Anonymous since you don't want to start authentication until the https connection is made. Now, you can type: my_server_url/admin and you're there. HTH, Dylan At 09:10 AM 10/19/2002 -0400, you wrote:

I recently got ssl working on my system and wanted to use ssl for the management pages of zope. I'm using apache + zope + vhm.

I'd like to be able to type the normal http url and if a management screen is viewed have it "redirect" (is that the right term) everything through secure pages. Everything is working now but I have to actually type https://... (oh, the agony) rather than just http://... In other words, I'd rather just type .../manage at the end and just log in and start working. Currently, that isn't happening, I have to manually type in the https or it doesn't get encrypted.

Here's the httpd.conf (mind the word wrap): =================================================== NameVirtualHost 192.168.100.253:80 NameVirtualHost 192.168.100.253:443

<VirtualHost 192.168.100.253:80> ServerName mydomain.org

# Secure management screens RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !443 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(.*(manage).*) RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:9673/VirtualHostBase/https/%{HTTP_HOST}:443/jesse/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P]

# Rewrite rules for normal zope browsing RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*:80$ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}/jesse/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P]

# A "static" directory within zope RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/nz/ RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:9673/VirtualHostBase/http/%{HTTP_HOST}:80/jesse/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P] </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 192.168.100.253:443> ServerName mydomain.org <IfModule mod_ssl.c> SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/ssl.crt/server.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/ssl.key/server.key SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown </IfModule> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:9673/VirtualHostBase/https/%{HTTP_HOST}:443/jesse/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P] </VirtualHost>

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