[Zope] More than one Zope site for one Zope installation ?

[Alexander Staubo]

What if Zope used the Host: header field to target a specific subtree?

For example:

  /
    foo.org
      index_html
      ...
    bar.org
      index_html
      ...

Assuming a request like this:

  GET /index_html HTTP/1.1
  Host: www.foo.org

then Zope could look at a table of virtual server name mappings (such as
www.foo.org -> foo.org -- could be implemented through properties), find
the correct subtree, and assume this to be the server root. So
www.foo.org/index_html would in this case map directly to
/foo.org/index_html.

As far as I can see, Zope currently ignores the HTTP 1.1 Host: header.

Alexander Staubo
http://www.mop.no/~alex/
mailto:redhand@mop.no

>-----Original Message-----
>From: enlight@planete.net [mailto:enlight@planete.net]On Behalf Of
>lstep@mail.dotcom.fr
>Sent: 9. mai 1999 18:54
>To: zope@zope.org
>Subject: [Zope] More than one Zope site for one Zope installation ?
>
>
>I have several users who want all to have access to Zope.
>These users have each a domain foo.org, bar.org, but it points
>to the same machine, with, currently, one standard Zope installation
>(with PCGI with Apache). They currently use standard Virtual servers
>functionnality from Apache.
>Now I'd like to allow them to have a zope access to each of them.
>As they want http://user.org/ to be their base url, I need to keep
>the virtual servers.
>
>I think my solutions are:
>Make several copies of the Zope tree, and with each one, make a
>database, and point the the good zope pcgi in each virutal server.
>It is not an acceptable solution for me, as having several
>Zope instances
>gets a lot of ressources ;-(
>
>Make only one Zope tree, with only one database. Create a folder in
>the database for each user, and make each virtual server map '/' to
>the user folder. I tried this, but I had big problems caused by the
>fact that '/' is not /user_folder :-(
>
>Is there something possible with ZServer (without Apache)? Is there
>some "virtual server" implementation (making a database for
>each user, or
>all users in the same database)?
>
>Some time ago, I saw a thread about a variable "INSTANCE_HOME", what is
>it about, and is it implemented in V.1.11 ?
>
>
>Thanks,
>Luc
>
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