[Zope] authentication & mod_rewrite troubles

[david harris]

thanks for the input michel it gave me a better understanding of what was going on, BUT it still 
doesnt work! argh.
My httpd.conf now says:

"
<VirtualHost www.test.net>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@www.test.net
#dont need a document root for Zope
#    DocumentRoot "/windows/My Documents/Web sites/www.test.net"
#so use a null one - not the apache default
#    DocumentRoot ''
    ServerName www.test.net
    ErrorLog /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/www.test.net_log
    CustomLog /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/www.test.net_log common
#Added by David - Palmer admin
#<Confidence low>
# Zope configuration maps /Zope/ to the Zope.cgi CGI script
#ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/
RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/zap_rewrite_log
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization}  ^(.*)
RewriteRule ^/Zope/(.*) /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/$1 [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]     
#</confidence>   
</VirtualHost>
"
the rewrite log says:
"
82c][rid#80eceb4/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /Zope/manage
192.168.0.2 - - [15/Mar/2000:19:16:51 +0000]
[rid#80eceb4/initial] (3) applying pattern '^/Zope/(.*)' to uri '/Zope/manage'
[www.test.net/sid#80e182c][rid#80eceb4/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='' pattern='^(.*)' => matched
192.168.0.2 - - [15/Mar/2000:19:16:51 +0000] [www.test.net/sid#80e182c][rid#80eceb4/initial] (2) rewrite /Zope/manage -> /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/manage
192.168.0.2 - - [15/Mar/2000:19:16:51 +0000] [www.test.net/sid#80e182c][rid#80eceb4/initial] (5) setting env variable 'HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION' to ''
192.168.0.2 - - [15/Mar/2000:19:16:51 +0000] [www.test.net/sid#80e182c][rid#80eceb4/initial] (2) remember /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/manage to have MIME-type 'application/x-httpd-cgi'
192.168.0.2 - - [15/Mar/2000:19:16:51 +0000] [www.test.net/sid#80e182c][rid#80eceb4/initial] (2) local path result: /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/manage
192.168.0.2 - - [15/Mar/2000:19:16:51 +0000] [www.test.net/sid#80e182c][rid#80eceb4/initial] (1) go-ahead with /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/manage [OK]
192.168.0.2 - - [15/Mar/2000:19:16:51 +0000] [www.test.net/sid#80e182c][rid#80eceb4/initial] (1) force filename /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi to have MIME-type 'application/x-httpd-cgi'

again Im not sure what the 'force filename' bit mean and whether
"setting env variable 'HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION' to '' "
looks right?

Now I just get "You don't have permission to access /Zope/home on this server." no login prompts start screens or anything.

Is there anyway of debugging the interaction between Zope and Apache rewrite?

Thanks
David

"desperate to avoid PHP :)"