why run apache in front of zope?
This may be an obvious question to many, but not to me... why do so many people run Zope behind an Apache server? What are the benefits of an Apache server, or otherwise, what are the limitations of the Zope web server? I currently run Zope alone and am evaluating the benefits of use Apache. Thanks. Garry Galinsky garry@galinsky.net (403) 667-4777 (403) 667-4744 Fax
Garry Galinsky wrote:
This may be an obvious question to many, but not to me... why do so many people run Zope behind an Apache server? What are the benefits of an Apache server, or otherwise, what are the limitations of the Zope web server? I currently run Zope alone and am evaluating the benefits of use Apache. Thanks.
Apache makes an attempt to be secure and offer the configurability necessary to sanity check some of the requests it handles. Currently, ZServer doesn't try as hard. As such, Apache (or other suitable frontends) tend to be safer in an untrusted environment assuming you actually take the time to configure it properly. -- Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ "I was in love once -- a Sinclair ZX-81. People said, "No, Holly, she's not for you." She was cheap, she was stupid and she wouldn't load -- well, not for me, anyway." -Holly
people run Zope behind an Apache server? What are the benefits of an Apache server, or otherwise, what are the limitations of the Zope web server?
Speed, flexibility, proxying, caching, rewrite rules, SSL and all those things Apache does well and you may or may not need that Zope may or may not provide. -- Andy McKay www.agmweb.ca
I asked the same question and concluded there's no benefit I can see - I ended up running SQUID in front of Zserver which seems to be just dandy, and SQUID offers security comparable (afik) to apache, if not better. on 10/19/02 9:05 PM, Garry Galinsky at garry@galinsky.net scrivened:
This may be an obvious question to many, but not to me... why do so many people run Zope behind an Apache server? What are the benefits of an Apache server, or otherwise, what are the limitations of the Zope web server? I currently run Zope alone and am evaluating the benefits of use Apache. Thanks.
Garry Galinsky garry@galinsky.net (403) 667-4777 (403) 667-4744 Fax
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On servers I administer, we do virtual hosting for many kinds of websites on the same server: filesystem+CGI, filesystem+PHP4, and Zope. Apache provides a convenient and standard way to do virtual hosting. It's easy to front-end Zope sites with mod_proxy, plus I can enable gzip compression on any kind of site with mod_gzip and enable SSL encryption any kind of site with mod_ssl. -dave Marc Lindahl wrote:
I asked the same question and concluded there's no benefit I can see - I ended up running SQUID in front of Zserver which seems to be just dandy, and SQUID offers security comparable (afik) to apache, if not better.
on 10/19/02 9:05 PM, Garry Galinsky at garry@galinsky.net scrivened:
This may be an obvious question to many, but not to me... why do so many people run Zope behind an Apache server? What are the benefits of an Apache server, or otherwise, what are the limitations of the Zope web server? I currently run Zope alone and am evaluating the benefits of use Apache. Thanks.
Garry Galinsky
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