[Zope] mod_rewrite

[Andy Dustman]

I'm not sure exactly why, but the mod_rewrite rules examples which are in
doc/WEBSERVER.txt didn't work well for me. Mainly, they didn't handle
authentication at all and should have:

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

This looks like it ought to work (this is my first experience with
mod_rewrite), except that I think it always sets HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION,
even if no Authorization header was present. That may be what confuses
Zope (HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION="").

So I ended up hacking my own. My goals were a little different as well: I
wanted the top-level of the site to be Zope without any special Zope
references, and I also needed to be able to leave my normal
~user/public_html stuff available. Eventually I came up with this. Maybe
it'll be useful to someone else. Yes, the user name could be matched by a
regex and substituted back in, but I'm the only user, and I'm not in the
mood to break it again. :) You'll probably want to just skip the first
RewriteCond/RewriteRule pair. And the other two rules could probably be
combined as well, but it ain't broke, so I'm not fixing it...

RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog /home/adustman/Zope-2.0.0a4-src/var/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 0
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/~adustman/(.*)
RewriteRule ^/~adustman/(.*) /home/adustman/public_html/$1 [S=4]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/(.*)
RewriteRule ^/(.*) /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/$1 [t=application/x-httpd-cgi]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization}  ^(.+)
RewriteRule ^/(.*) /$1 [ENV=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1]

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