[Zope] Zope authentication problem
Ken Weiss
ken.weiss@ucop.edu
Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:48:54 -0800
I apologize in advance for this note. I know this topic has come up
several times in the archives, and I swear I've read every post,
every how-to, and every other bit of documentation I can find. I
can't get past the management screen authentication for Zope with
Apache.
Here's my environment:
OS: RedHat Linux 6.1
Zope: version 2.1.4, installed from Jeff Rush's RPMs (thanks, Jeff)
Zope PCGI: version 2.1.4, also from Jeff Rush's RPMs (thanks again, Jeff)
Apache: version 1.3.9, installed from the Red Hat RPMs (both base
and devel RPMs are installed)
Python: version 1.5.2, from the Red Hat RPMs
I'm configured as follows:
Zope install directory: /var/zope
Zope.cgi: copied to /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope
(not a symlink, and renamed 'Zope')
access file: /var/zope/access, contains:
admin:cleartextpassword
httpd.conf contains:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
RewriteRule ^/static/(.*) /home/httpd/html/$1 [l]
RewriteRule ^/Zope(.*) /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope$1
[e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]
(that last line is all one long line, and I'm pretty sure I've sorted
out the ls and the 1s properly)
Zope is launched with the following command:
cd $INSTANCE_HOME (/var/zope)
/usr/bin/env python z2.py \
-z /usr/share/zope \
-u zope \
-Z /var/run/zwatchdog.pid \
-p /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope \
-w '' \
-f 8021 \
-m '' \
-l /var/log/zope \
2>&1 >> /var/log/zope \
&
I can access all my other (non-Zope) CGI programs normally. I can
access my static html with URLs of the form:
http://server.ucop.edu/static/some_silly_url.html
So, I'm pretty sure that both CGI and the rewrite modules are
installed, configured, and working properly. I can run Zope and see
the QuickStart materials, so I'm pretty sure that the basic Zope
installation is correct. But I can't get authenticated to Zope.
There's nothing in the logs for httpd or Zope that looks interesting
to me:
httpd - access_log:
207.212.67.31 - - [08/Mar/2000:10:14:18 -0800] "GET
/cgi-bin/Zope/manage HTTP/1.0" 401 1388
Zope log (syslog messages file):
Mar 8 10:14:18 akpi ZServer[24689]: 127.0.0.1- -
[08/Mar/2000:18:14:18 -0700] "GET /manage" 401 1782
/var/log/zope is empty.
I've tried about a zillion other things, including installing the
Zope binaries instead of the RPMs, and installing and building the
Zope source. In every case I end up with the same result. Zope
doesn't accept the authentication. One oddity I noticed is that if I
access Zope through:
http://server.ucop.edu/Zope
it immediately requests authentication. It doesn't even show me the
opening screen or allow me to browse the QuickStart. If I dodge
around the RewriteRule by going directly to:
http://server.ucop.edu/cgi-bin/Zope
then it doesn't ask for authentication until I try to hit the
management screen.
I should probably add that I tried using the built-in Zserver Python
package and it worked fine. I haven't tried Zap. I would prefer to
use Apache because I want to serve a mixture of legacy HTML and Zope
content. I would prefer to use my own Apache instead of Zap because
in general I'm not comfortable with using a package that I can't
maintain at the current release level. Zap Apache trails plain Apache
releases, at least by a little bit. I've tried a whole raft of
variations on the rewrite rules in Apache. I'm stuck.
Anybody out there been through this already?
--Ken
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