[Zope] newbie troubles--apache/zope behind firewall

[Meilicke, Scott]

What you need is this:

Firewall with port forwarding
Zope with a vhm 

You may want:

Apache - some claim it is more robust at serving web pages than zopes http
server

Without Apache:
Setup your firewall to forward IP 206.129.200.138, port 80 to 192.168.1.20,
port whatever your zope server is running on - 8080 by default.  You can
override this in z2.py.  No need for zope to know anything about your
external IP.

Install a vhm from the enhanced site access product, v. 2, into the root of
your install.  Within the vhm, click on the Edit tab, and read the example
docs to setup the vhm.  It's a really simple, two field form to fill out.
The first field is your URL, www.plecouncil.org, the second is the path,
/PLE.

Thanks it!

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca Elder [mailto:sharpscissor@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:52 PM
To: zope@zope.org
Subject: [Zope] newbie troubles--apache/zope behind firewall


As a brand spanking new Zopist I'm having no luck
getting my Zope 
going behind firewall with virtual hosting. I've been
through this 
list and zope.org resources and tried most of the code
snippets I've 
come across and I'm feeling discouraged--I hope you
can help, I would 
really appreciate it. 

Here's the info to give you an idea; I'm not trying to
do anything fancy here--

My webserver has an external IP 206.129.200.138 (where
Dotster dns is pointed) and internal IP 192.168.1.20

The site I want to host is www.plecouncil.org in Zope
folder PLE. It 
appears that I need Apache but I'm not sure if I need
mod proxy, 
rewrite rules, or both. I gather that I should use a 
virtualhostmonster in the zope root folder. I'm not
clear on how to 
get the external IP connected to the internal IP and
then the Apache 
server to the Zope server. I wouldn't mind doing
without Apache, but 
I think I need it to the negotiate the firewall,
right?


----------------
LoadModule proxy_module modules/apachemoduleproxy.dll
LoadModule rewrite_module
modules/apachemodulerewrite.dll


Port 80

#same as A record name-correct? or should be internal
or ext. IP?
ServerName webserver.plecouncil.org
#
#website is the name of my zope folder
DocumentRoot "c:/program files/website"

#I'm not sure which IP to use--external, right?
NameVirtualHost 206.129.200.138

      <VirtualHost 206.129.200.138>
        ServerName www.plecouncil.org
        DocumentRoot c:/program files/WebSite
        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
          RewriteEngine On
          RewriteLog "/var/log/apache/rewrite_log"
          RewriteLogLevel 1
          RewriteRule ^/local/ - [ L ]
          RewriteRule ^/icons/ - [ L ]
          RewriteRule ^/~(.*) - [ L ]
          RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/ - [ L ]
          RewriteRule ^/(.*) \
           
<http://206.129.200.138:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/www.plecouncil.org:80/pl>
e/VirtualHostRoot/$1
[ P ]
        </IfModule>
      </VirtualHost>


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