[ZDP] BackTalk to Document The Zope Book (2.6 Edition)/Virtual Hosting Services

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    *SiteRoot*s are an artifact of an older generation of Zope virtual
    hosting services that are only retained in current Zope versions
    for backwards-compatibility purposes.  They are not documented in
    this book because they are somewhat "dangerous" for new users, as
    they have the capability of temporarily "locking you out" of your
    Zope instance if you configure them improperly.  Luckily, we have
    *Virtual Host Monsters*, which do everything that SiteRoots do and
    more without any of the dangerous side effects of SiteRoots.  If
    you want to do virtual hosting in Zope, you should almost
    certainly be using a *Virtual Host Monster*.

      % Anonymous User - Feb. 13, 2004 7:27 pm:
       Hint: The virtual host monster will become confused if you have a site-root object somewhere further up the
       heirarchy. I suggest that you eliminate all site-root objects from your system.

      % Anonymous User - May 2, 2004 1:52 am:
       What does above Anonymous User mean by "site-root object somewhere further up the heirarchy"? Surely not that
       I should remove my site-root. So then what "site-root" is he referring to?

      % Anonymous User - May 17, 2004 1:58 am:
       There is another method of tricking Zope into thinking that a child folder is actually the site root by the
       use of the "site-root" object. The suggestion was of course to remove these specific special objects, NOT
       your actual site root ;)