[Zope] Tricky Apache configuration: mixing static and Zope virtual hosts

[Itai Tavor]

Hi,

I'm sure nobody wants to see another question about RewriteRules, but 
I don't think this specific situation was covered before.

I'm using a Linux server to develop and demo web sites to clients. 
Some of these sites are static, others are Zope sites. I want to 
serve the Zope sites using Apache (mostly to avoid requiring users to 
type :8080, and also to enable SSL pages in Zope). I also want to 
make configuring new sites as simple as possible.

The static virtual hosts are created with Apache VirtualHost 
directives. For the Zope sites I use the SiteAccess product. The 
problem is that I also need to create VirtualHost entries for the 
Zope virtual hosts, so Apache knows to send those to Zope. I don't 
like this. So what I need is a set of VirtualHosts and RewriteRules 
that will do the following:

- Define specific domains as static Apache virtual hosts and serve 
them from the file system.

- Any domains not covered by the above should be passed to Zope, 
letting SiteAccess deal with them.

- Allow for path-based rules on the main (www.my-host.com) domain, so 
I can redirect www.my-host.com/some_path to /home/www/some_path, and 
www.my-host.com/Zope to /cgi-bin/Zope.cgi.

Any ideas?
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