On Fri, Jul 16, 2004, Josef Meile wrote:

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I am a newbie in networking and developing webserver. I have already succesfull to installed zope from source in my linux mandrake 9. But I don't know how to do administrative work from other computer, doing remote. My host is http://localhost:8080/ but after I type that host in other computer, it cannot be done except from my own computer which is installed the zope. It is normal 'cause localhost is what the word says: a host which is local to the current machine. It won't work from other machine.

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How do I do remote administrative work anyway? Supposing that you are connected to the network of a company, then you have to use the hostname of your machine or ip address in case that you use something like dhcp. ie:

http://abc.def.ghi.jkl:8080/manage -> this should be your ip. Get this info by giving ipconfig in Windows, or ifconfig on linux.

http://myhostname.mydomain:8080/manage

I typically put the zope interface on a private interface not accessible by the general public (e.g. 192.168.x.x:8080) allowing access from the private internal LAN or by appropriate VPN connections to the server. My main reason for doing it this way is that I haven't found a way to make ExternlEditor work on an Apache rewritten connection. When I have to access from a site where I can't get an IPSec tunnel (say behind a NAT firewall) I've used PPP over an ssh connection to get to the private address. It's also possible to handle this with apache rewrites using URLs specific to the management (e.g. http://www.example.com/zope/...) with the rewrites going to localhost:8080. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling, then the world will have peace.'' Will Rogers