[Zope-dev] Need to patch SiteRoot ?

[Casey Duncan]

SiteRoots are an anachronism, there only because yanking it out would
break applications that were built with them previously.

I would highly recommend switching to using a virtual host monster which
is a much more benign object in general (despite its name).

Now I'm not sure if it solves the problem you describe directly, but
it's worth a try. It'll certainly solve other problems.

-Casey

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 05:54, Romain Slootmaekers wrote:
> Yo,
> we have a website with 2 parts:
> a public part (http://www.greatsite.com)
> and a private part (https://www.greatsite.com/private/)
> 
> We use
> the apache proxy + SiteRoot approach.
> (configuration added below )
> 
> Anyway, everything works perfectly for the users of the site.
> The problem is that we can't manage the site through https because the
> SiteRoot object for the public site returns http url's instead of https.
> Logical, but a nuissance.
> 
> 
> My idea is to patch the SiteRoot code so that the protocol for the virtual
> root is the same as the protocol used by the request. so
> https://www.greatsite.com/manage will return pages with
> urls of the form https://www.greatsite.com/<whatever>.
> 
> This is probably 30 minutes of source code browsing and 5 minutes of
> patching and testing.
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> -) are there different solutions to this problem ?
> -) If I patch the SiteRoot, will you guys check it in our do I have to
>    patch future releases again and again ( Syssiphus like torture )
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Sloot
> 
> 
> 
> ------- begin of configuration ------------------------
> 
> ###### Apache ####
> NameVirtualHost www.greatsite.com
> <VirtualHost www.greatsite.com>
> ServerName www.greatsite.com
> ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/greatsite/
> ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8080/greatsite/
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> 
> NameVirtualHost www.greatsite.com:443
> #
> <VIRTUALHOST www.greatsite.com:443>
> ServerName www.greatsite.com
> ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8080/greatsite/
> ProxyPassReverse / https://127.0.0.1:8080/greatsite/
> SSLEngine on
> SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/ssl.crt/server.crt
> SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/ssl.key/server.key
> </VIRTUALHOST>
> 
> 
> and 2 SiteRoot objects (in the ZODB)
> 
> in /greatsite folder
> base http://www.greatsite.com
> path : /
> 
> in /greatsite/private folder
> base https://www.greatsite.com/private/
> path : /
> 
> 
> ---------------------------- end of configuration ----------------
> 
> 
> "Science can amuse and fascinate us all,
>  but it is engineering that changes the world."
>                                  Isaac Asimov
> 
> 
> 
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