[Zope-CMF] CMF & VirtualHostMonster

Gary Poster Gary Poster" <garyposter@earthlink.net
Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:35:15 -0500


Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I *think* the "mainstream" solution is
to have your numeric ip go to the zope root.  It's been a while since I
looked at the basic vanilla VirtualHostMonster though.

g

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Walton" <waltonl@franklin.edu>
To: "Gary Poster" <garyposter@earthlink.net>; "CMF Mailing List"
<zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] CMF & VirtualHostMonster


> Thanks Gary.  Yes, we did already figure that we could set up a different
> virtual host.  I was just wondering if anyone knew of a way besides that.
If
> that's the only answer, it's not a problem.  I just like to understand how
> others approach some of these things so I can keep our setup as
"mainstream" as
> possible in the zope world. <g>
>
> Thanks for the links too.  I'll look into those more.
>
> Lynn
>
> Gary Poster wrote:
>
> > would setting up an alternate virtual server be acceptable, e.g.
> > root.domain.com takes you to the root folder?  That might be another way
to
> > look at the problem.  I'm not an Apache expert, but this shouldn't be
too
> > bad; or if through-the-web virtual host management sounds interesting,
> > explore imeme's enhancement to the virtual host monster:
> > http://www.zope.org/Members/sfm/SiteAccessEnhanced
> > or my major redesign, in development (but worth a look):
> > http://www.zope.org/Members/poster/VHF
> > In either of those, you can easily set up an arrangement in which
> > root.domain.com goes to one location, and [everything else].domain.com
goes
> > to the main one you want.
> >
> > hope that helps; if not, hope somebody else already has helped.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > -----------
> > Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 01:03:37 -0600
> > From: Lynn Walton <waltonl@franklin.edu>
> > To: CMF Mailing List <zope-cmf@zope.org>
> > Subject: [Zope-CMF] CMF & VirtualHostMonster
> >
> > Wondering if anyone can advise me on this:
> >
> > If we had a cmf site with a VirtualHostMonster
> > and the following rule in apache's httpd.conf for a given virtual host:
> >
> >   RewriteRule ^/(.*)
> >
http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/my.domain.com:80/portal1/VirtualH
> > ostRoot/$1
> > [P]
> >
> > What other rule do we write to still be able to get to the root folder
> > in the ZMI ?
> >
> > We've tried a bunch of RewriteRule combinations, including RewriteCond,
> > and haven't gotten it to work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lynn
>