Thanks Martijn and Thierry, Neither of your solutions worked, but they did give me some ideas and I now have a better idea of the mechanics of my problem... Thierry, my main.dtml is different to yours... and Martijn, ^/Zope(/.*) /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi$1 didn't work... but, thinking with my fingers, looking at the main.dtml (it is burried so deep in the subdirectories.... I doubt I would have found it myself) I discovered that I could add pages, if I went directly to the address: http://linus/Zope/manage_addDTMLDocumentForm I could change the main.dtml so that I am sent to these type addresses, but I feel I will run into other trouble later on when I try external methods. The way I understand it at the moment, what the rewrite rule is trying to do is to turn: http://linus/Zope/?%3Amethod=manage_addDTMLDocumentForm into http://linus/Zope.cgi?%3Amethod=manage_addDTMLDocumentForm which will then redirect to http://linus/Zope/manage_addDTMLDocumentForm I feel very close to a solution now... and at least I can build some Zope pages while I am stumped. Thanks again.... I will go away for a think and try again tonight or tomorrow. MGB.

From: Martijn Pieters <mj@antraciet.nl> To: Thierry <thierry@glisco.it>, zope@zope.org CC: mgb58@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [Zope] Re: Re: [ZOPE] Newbie Zope step 2. Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 16:36:45 +0200

At 16:11 31/08/99 , Thierry wrote:

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Hi,

Put a slash in the file <zope directory>/lib/python/OFS/main.dtml, at line 9.

<FORM ACTION="<!--#var URL1-->/" METHOD="POST"> ^^^ instead of

<FORM ACTION="<!--#var URL1-->" METHOD="POST">

Your Rewrite Rules are correct :

RewriteEngine On RewriteLog /new/usr/apache/logs/rewrite_log #RewriteLogLevel 9

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*) RewriteRule ^/Zope/(.*) /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/$1 \ [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]

If you use

^/Zope(.*) /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi$1

any URL starting with Zope will match which is not what you want. If you use this rule :

http://my.site.com/Zope_any_word _you_like

will be converted to :

home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi_any_word_you_like

which fails miserably, because there is not a CGI with that name.

I don't see this as a problem... either way it is an error.

Its just that I saw a similar problem a while back (I can't find the email anymore) that was solved tweaking the rewrite rule. My rewrite works just fine right now.

Maybe if you tried:

^/Zope(/.*) /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi$1

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