Hi, I just wanted to pass along some of what I've learned trying to get Zope working properly on a web hosting service where I don't have any admin level access to Apache. Assuming the hosting company has mod_rewrite installed (which pair, the company I'm using, does), you should be able to get things going. mod_rewrite is not as efficient on a directory-level basis, but it does at least function. The Rewrite config lines listed in WEBSERVER.txt need to be added to a .htaccess file in your document tree. There is a change that you need to make, however. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*) RewriteRule ^Zope.cgi/(.*) - [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l] Note that the RewriteRule (and the line below it) are on one line. When using mod_rewrite from .htaccess, the URL you are applying the RewriteRule to is relative to directory you're in. (In WEBSERVER.txt, it lists ^/Zope/, but the leading / is not necessary in this context.) The RewriteRule I've supplied above does not actually rewrite the URL. It just passes through the HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION variable. I had to do this because of another side effect of using mod_rewrite from .htaccess. If I had made the RewriteRule look like this: RewriteRule ^z/(.*) /path/to/Zope.cgi [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l] Zope would see its URL as http://www.yoursite.com/Zope.cgi/, even though you accessed it from http://www.yoursite.com/z/. Consequently, you can't use the management interface, because Zope tries to load things through /Zope.cgi/ instead of through /z/, therefore the RewriteRule doesn't get touched and the authorization information doesn't make it through. Thus far, I haven't had a chance to play with the environment variables to try to fix this. (Though I'm sure it is fixable.) Finally, one last caveat: you'll need an updated ZPublisher. mod_rewrite tosses REDIRECT_ in front of a number of environment variables when used with .htaccess. The changes to Publish.py remove the REDIRECT_ references. If anyone has been using mod_rewrite like this and has any suggestions on making things work cleaner, they'd be much appreciated. Kevin -- Kevin Dangoor kid@ans.net / 734-214-7349