I think the question is how to return a tuple of the path to the object in context (rather than just the physical root path to it) So if 'foo' exists in the root, but you are calling it from inside the 'Zope' object, how can you get a tuple of ('', 'Zope', 'foo'). I suggested just splitting the REQUEST.URLPATH0 and getting it from there. Is there a better way? Dieter Maurer wrote:

Skip Montanaro writes:

...

I'm working on a Zope server which is sitting behind Apache, so instead of

http://somehost/foo/bar/baz

URLs take this form:

http://somehost/Zope/foo/bar/baz

Inside a Python script I can ask for the path to an object like so:

context.foo.getPhysicalPath()

which returns

('', 'foo')

Is there a way to get it to return

('', 'Zope', 'foo')

without knowing "/Zope" explicitly? Use VHM (VirtualHostMonster) and "absolute_url" and forget about the question above.

Head the documentation you find on a VHM instance.

Dieter

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If there was a reason (say it was \\somehost\en\homepage vs \\somehost\jp\homepage or something similar) how would you go about figuring out whether en / jp was the language you should be using? It's just an interesting point (what actually got me responding to the original post in the first place) and could be useful for me at some point in time... Chris Dieter Maurer wrote:

Chris Beaven writes:

...

I think the question is how to return a tuple of the path to the object in context (rather than just the physical root path to it)

So if 'foo' exists in the root, but you are calling it from inside the 'Zope' object, how can you get a tuple of ('', 'Zope', 'foo'). I suggested just splitting the REQUEST.URLPATH0 and getting it from there. Is there a better way? When you do it right, there may be no need to know about the "Zope" intermediate URL segment. Personally, I would go for such a solution.

Dieter

Dieter> When you do it right, there may be no need to know about the Dieter> "Zope" intermediate URL segment. Personally, I would go for such Dieter> a solution. Any clues? If I want to send back a redirect, how to I "do it right" so the browser at the other end gets a valid URL? Someone else mentioned SiteRoot but the docs made me suspect a simple mistake would break things badly. You mentioned VirtualHostMonster, but I can't find any docs about it at all. I tried creating one. When I select it, the Mapping tab says I don't need to use that tab if I run Apache in front of Zope (which is the case for this particular installation). The About tab mentions stuff like VirtualHostBase and VirtualHostRoot but gives no clues about where to set them. There are no other tabs and no help link. Searching the help stuff for VirtualHostMonster returns no matches. Where am I supposed to edit the dang thing? Apache proxies requests for http://www.thishost.com/Zope/... to Zope. So http://www.thishost.com/Zope/xyz refers to the xyz object in my SiteRoot. When I call xyz.absolute_url() or xyz.getPhysicalPath() from a Python script I want some indication that the URL contains "/Zope/..." as the path prefix. -- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com http://www.mojam.com/ http://www.musi-cal.com/