[Zope] subdirectory evasion

[Michel Pelletier]

Michel Pelletier
Digital Creations, Inc.
Use Zope!  http://www.zope.org/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milos Prudek [mailto:prudek@sol.cz]
> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 4:22 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] subdirectory evasion
> 
> 
> I want to move our whole website under Zope. But some static
> subdirectories must be maintained traditionally, i.e. they should be
> FTP-accessible, and served directly by Apache. (the latter is not
> neccessary, but I believe there is no support for ftp upload in Zope
> yet).
> 
> I figured that when I put rewrite rule pointing to "directories exempt
> from Zope" just before Zopish rewrite rule, everything would be fine,
> correct?
> 

Yes.  This is a little trick we use to get mailman and cvsweb under our
www.zope.org domain.  For example:

RewriteRule ^/mailman - [l]
RewriteRule ^/pipermail - [l]
RewriteRule ^/stats - [l]
RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin - [l]
RewriteRule ^/icons - [l]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
RewriteRule ^/(.*) .../$1
[e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]

The ... is the absolute path to our Zope.cgi.  Each of the preceding
RewriteRules before the big one trap out any requests.  The - means
don't rewrite anything.  The special magic is the 'l' flag.  This means
not to procede any further with any other rules.

Of course, this means we can't ever see a 'mailman' object we create in
our Zope root folder.  No loss.

-Michel

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