Do a search on the zope site for ssl. You'll find two very useful howto's - one describes the apache httpd.conf virtual host pixie dust using proxy and proxyrewrite directives (you need to build apache with mod_rewrite and mod_proxy as well as mod_ssl) and the other has some details on integrating the siteroot product to do the url munging in zope - be warned that the siteroot product can lead to some interesting consequences if it isn't installed just right - it works a treat now but I would have been in serious trouble if I'd tried installing it on a production site - get it right with a development site before bringing it over to your production machine particularly if your dropping it into your zope root folder. I just finished setting this up and found these two resources solved many problems before I encountered them (!) although there was the inevitable headbanging needed to get everything just right....I ended up NOT using fastcgi although that was my original intention. Right now, mod_proxy allows me to serve a zope running on another machine (!) through ssl. In zope@zope.org, Dustin Engelhaupt <zope@e...> wrote:

I am running Zope 2.2.2 and accessing it through Apache & FastCGI. I want to access some of the content through SSL and some without. What I have done is set up 2 FastCgiExternalServer directives in Apache. One in the non-SSL area (/non-SSL/dir/zope) and one in the SSL enabled area (/SSL/dir/zope_ssl).