[Zope] Configuration of Apache-authenticated Zope on Apache 1.2.6

[Matthew J. Probst]

Okay, I understand that the "fall-through" authentication to Zope will not
work with rewrite rules when Apache 1.2.6 is used.  Unfortunately the
project I'm starting is being done for a shop that refuses to upgrade to
1.2.6.

I have Zope working just fine with Apache authentication; for the needs of
my project, this method of authentication works just fine.  However, I
need to know how to properly set up Zope to run in a virtual domain
"container", _and_ to only authenticate parts of the object hierarchy at
one time.

The idea is that we have a website

docs.foobar.net

that is a virtual domain on an Apache 1.2.6 server, and we need to
authenticate any requests underneath

docs.foobar.net/manage

so that the world can see the pages but only people in our list can
manage.

Another simultaneous difficulty is finding the proper way to make this
virtual domain automatically start in folder "docs" of Zope's object
hierarchy.  I've used an Alias to translate docs.foobar.net to
docs.foobar.net/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/docs , and it works fine, but I don't
have proper Zen mystical knowledge of Zope to understand the _proper_ ways
of doing these things, if such ways exist.

I have done a scan of Email archives and most of the documentation on the
Zope site, but either I'm dumb as nails or just don't know the proper
magic keywords to get the information I need.

Zope looks great, I've resisted learning a new language but a killer app
makes it worthwhile.