[Zope] Can't access /manage

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Davis [mailto:davis@arc.ab.ca]
> 
> I installed the Zope-2.0.1-5.i386.rpm and 
> Zope-pcgi-2.0.1-5.i386.rpm on
> a Redhat 6.1 box this morning.  After compiling in mod_rewrite with
> Apache 1.3.9 (verfied with httpd -l), I am able to bring up the
> Quickstart pages from http://<hostname>/cgi-bin/Zope but when I try to
> the login to the management pages (/manage), I get denied.  I have
> verified that I am using the correct username and password from
> /var/zope/access.  
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  root   25 Dec 20 13:57 access

It wouldn't fail in this way if it were a permissions problems, but are
you running Zope as root?  If so, Zope will turn itself into the user
'nobody'.  It doesn't like to run as root.

> Here is the rewrite statement from the end of httpd.conf:
> 
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^/Zope(.*)
> RewriteRule ^/Zope(.*) /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope$1 \
> [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]
> 
> The zope log contains nothing helpful.  Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks.

Turn your RewriteLogLevel to 9.  That usually shows the problem.

-Michel