[Zope] - Authenication problems when on webhost?

[Jimmie Houchin]

>Jimmie Houchin wrote:
>>
>> I haven't installed Zope yet. I have been reading the documentation and
>> posts here. There have been a couple of post by Michael Grinder which have
>> not been answered and concern me. Maybe they have not been answered because
>> there isn't a good solution. If that is the case I prefer to know.
>
>If you've noticed the Zope traffic, I hope you can appeciate that it might
>take a while to get to everyones questions.

Understood. And I think that it is wonderful.
The Zope list is now full of life. :)

In rereading my statements, maybe I phrased my above statements poorly.

I didn't mean to imply that the lack of answers concerns me, but that the
question (because of similar situations) and therefore what the answer
would be, concerns me. I was not trying to be harsh to the list, but may
have come across as such. If so, my apologies.

>> For those of us who have to use a webhosting service we are at the mercy of
>> what  they (the webhost) will permit and what is required configuration
>> wise by Zope.
>>
>> Are there any options for configuring for Authorization that can be done by
>> those of us who use a webhosting service?
>
>Unfortunately, most web servers make it hard for web applications
>to do authentication.  We worked out a way to trick Apache into doing it
>that worked with some versions of Apache and not others.  It hasn't helped
>that the key piece, mod_rewrite has changed quite a bit from rev to rev. :(
>I think a number of people are working on trying to give helpful
>advice.
>
>Keep in mind, however, that Zope does provide support for letting
>an HTTP server do authentication and letting Zope do authorization.
>You have to get the web server administrator to set up the user ids
>and passwords for you and to set a couple of script aliases.  Then Zope
>uses the REMOTE_USER information passed from the web server.   This is
>described in the Bobo documentation, which is being converted to
>Zope documentation and was also described on Bobo list.

I hope that the Apache my webhost uses, 1.2.6 on RH 4.2 is one that is
cooperative or that my webhost has already configured it for providing
Authentication. :)

I thank all here who provide assistance. For much of this is beyond my
current scope of understanding.

Thanks again.

Jimmie Houchin