[Zope-CMF] Understanding the Virtual Host Monster tool

[george donnelly]

so first of all i assume you have zope setup to run on port 8080. the
default one for the net is 80. This is something you can not change using
the VHM.

What the VHM can do is take mydomain.com and map it to /mydomain
(representing a folder-ish object in the root of your zope), so that when
someone goes to mydomain.com:8080 they see the index_html located in
/mydomain, instead of using the "real" URL which might be
my.ip.num.ber:8080/mydomain/index_html

But in order to get this stuff to show up at mydomain.com:80 (or simply
mydomain.com) you need to either modify zope's start script to run on port
80 (less than ideal) or get apache to run on port 80 and proxy pass zope in.
see zope.org for instructions.

regards,
george donnelly
http://zettai.net/
zettai: zope hosting and dynamic websites

> From: mcolli@SyscomCipher.com.ar
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:52:59 -0300
> To: zope-cmf@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-CMF] Understanding the Virtual Host Monster tool
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can somebody explain this phrase to me?:
> 
> ============================================
> For example, to publish Folder "/foo" as http://www.foo.com/, put a Virtual
> Host Monster in the root folder and rewrite requests for that URL to
> /VirtualHostBase/http/www.foo.com/foo/VirtualHostRoot/
> ============================================
> 
> It is taken from the Virtual Host Monster tool description but I do not
> know how to use it to do the following:
> 
>> I have a Plone site created in the Root Folder called company.
>> 
>> Then, I access it  this way: http://host:port/company
>> 
>> Now, I want to enter it this way: www.company.com
>> 
>> I have tried several times cofiguring the Virtual Host Monster (Mapping)
>> but it does not work. I am probably doing something wrong as I do not
>> understand very well the available documentation...
>> 
> Thanks a lot, Mariela
> 
> 
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