I am serving a set of websites with different domain names from a single server, using Apache (1.3.2)'s Virtual Hosts feature. For reasons too irrelevent to go into here, I serve some URLs (mostly images and other binary files) statically through Apache, and the rest from Zope. All dynamic content is served from a single Zope server, from root folders each of whose ID is the 'site name'. Most static and dynamic pages must be able to refer to each other with relative paths, so I can't always distinguish them by hostname, port, or URL prefix (the usual /Zope/ hack). All pages, including those from Zope, must be reachable with URLs which end in '.html', since the pages are being edited (and the links maintained) in Dreamweaver, which uses Windows file extension associations <choke>. On the other hand, I don't want to have to go around making Zope objects with IDs ending in ".html' I came up with the following framework: 1. I can force a static URL by prefixing it with the 'site name'. 2. No Zope object has a period in its ID, so any URL with a period is static and any without is dynamic (but see #3). The default homepage (a bare "/") is also static. 3. In Dreamweaver, all dynamic pages end in '.py.html', but they're stored in Zope with no extension. Apache strips all occurrences of '.py.html', and hands the stripped URL back to the client. 4. A dynamic URL is automatically prefixed with the 'site name', unless it already starts with '/Zope/' (for root access). For the site named "4am", I have: #1 and stop RewriteRule ^/(4am/.*) /home/httpd/html/$1 [L] #3, repeat and show to browser RewriteRule ^/(.*)\.py\.html(.*)$ $1$2 [R,N] #2 and stop RewriteRule !^/([^.]+)$ - [L] #4 RewriteRule ^/Zope/(.*) /$1 [S=1] RewriteRule ^/(.*) /4am/$1 RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*) # All on one line: RewriteRule ^/(.*) /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/$1 [E=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,E=ZOPE_RAW_URI:SCRIPT_URI,T=application/x-httpd -cgi,L] Now, one problem remains; Zope uses the path constructed by object traversal to construct BASEn and URLn variables and to auto-insert BASE links. This means that my framework causes "http://4-am.com/parrot/is/dead" to have an incorrect <!--#var URL--> of "http://4am.com/4am/parrot/is/dead". Following multiple links could lead someone to something like "http://4am.com/4am/4am/4am/4am/4am/parrot/is/dead". I had to patch ZPublisher to use SCRIPT_URI (indirectly, through ZOPE_RAW_URI) as follows: In ZPublisher/Publisher.py, around line 360, find line "URL=request.script". Directly after this line, insert: rawURI=request.environ.get('ZOPE_RAW_URI') if rawURI: def cvtpart(part, envget = request.environ.get): return envget(part, part) rawURI=join(map(cvtpart, split(rawURI)), '') then change "setBase(URL)" to "setBase(rawURI or URL)" around lines 380 and 460. Finally, directly before "request['URL']=URL" (around line 570-580), insert: URL=rawURI or URL This all *seems* to work just fine, although I may have missed a corner case or two (do I need to worry about __bobo_traverse__, for example?). In case the above is too abstract, here's some examples: http://4am.com/ == static homepage http://4am.com/images/squishfoot.png == static image http://4am.com/4am/images/squishfoot.png == same static image http://4am.com/Zope/manage == Manage all of Zope http://4am.com/manage == Manage "4am" folder in Zope http://4am.com/manage.py.html == same http://4am.com/Zope/4am/manage == same