I hope someome can help me solving this problem: My apache2 rewrite statement to zope/plone make persistently 403 error. (Exactly the same statement has worked before.) From sites-available/zope: NameVirtualHost 213.173.259.117 <VirtualHost 213.173.259.117> DocumentRoot /var/www/virtual/globalfordring.dk ServerName globalfordring.dk ServerSignature On CustomLog /var/log/apache2/globalfordring.dk-access.log combined ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/globalfordring.dk-error.log LogLevel debug RewriteEngine On ProxyVia On RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://globalfordring.dk:8083/VirtualHostBase/http/globalfordring.dk:80/port... [L,P] </VirtualHost> If I remove the rewrite rule, a browser reads html-files from the DocumentRoot. I can also browse zope directly: http://globalfordring.dk:8083/portaler/globalfordring. But, when I rewrites this url to globalfordring.dk, I get: You don't have permission to access / on this server. The happens if I exchange RewriteRule with: ProxyPass / http://localhost:8083/portaler/globalfordring ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/globalfordring I don't understand what is wrong? Flemming The server is a debian stable, Sarge, with apache2.0.54, og zope278 is compiled with its own python 2.3.5. There is a a virtualhostmoster in /. The problem does not disappear when I disable the iptables firewall. mods-enabled: actions.load auth_plain.load mod_python.load perl.load php4.load proxy_connect.load proxy.load userdir.conf cgi.load perl.conf php4.conf proxy.conf proxy_ftp.load rewrite.load userdir.load error-log: [client 62.66.183.58] client denied by server configuration: proxy:http://globalfordring.dk:8083/VirtualHostBase/htt p/globalfordring.dk:80/portaler/globalfordring/VirtualHostRoot/