[Zope] Virtual Hosting configuration for Zope

[M. Adam Kendall]

Alan, I do something similar, but I do it with an access rule only (and
adding a simple Site
Root to each folder that has all properties blank)

Basically, I have an access rule that looks at the hostname (complete
hostname, not just
domain name) and then redirects to a properly named folder off the root.

Here is the access rule if you want to take a gander:
<dtml-let
virtual_dir="_.string.lower(_.string.join(_.string.split(_.string.split(HTTP_HOST, ':')[0],'.')[:],'_'))">
 <dtml-if "virtual_dir != 'manager_host_com'">  
   <dtml-if expr="virtual_dir">
          <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('SiteRootPATH', '/')">
          <dtml-call
"REQUEST['TraversalRequestNameStack'].append(virtual_dir)">
   <dtml-else>
          <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('SiteRootPATH', '/')">
   </dtml-if>
 </dtml-if>
</dtml-let>

Basically, what this does is:
1. Grab the hostname, convert to lowercase (for those that are CAPS
challenged) and then
    replace . with _
2. Look and see if the hostname is the name of our management alias
hostname (the hostname
   designated to be the Zope root, manager.host.com in this case) and if
it is, simply do nothing and just    continue on normally
3. If it's not our management hostname, then look and see if we have a
folder that matches
   (IE:  host_domain_com)
4. If we have a folder that matches, set our SiteRoot stuff, and add the
path to the name stack

Simple solution really, and was done before the creation of VHM's in
Site Access.  I have
several servers running with this solution and it works quite well..
The one drawback to this
method is the case of wanting more than one site pointed to the same
folder.  Haven't figured
out a complete solution for that yet ;-)

--Adam

On 21 Mar 2001 23:01:26 -0600, Alan Capesius wrote:
> I've put together the following solutions for virtual hosting of domains
> and I'm looking for some feedback from the list.
> 
> The solution uses TinyTable, Virtual Host Monster and AccessRule and a
> DTML method to process all inbound requests by domain name similar to
> the way in which SiteRoot script things. The best part is that once set,
> the AccessRule does not need to be modified to add new hosts. Host to
> folder mapping is performed via entries in the TinyTable, the rest of
> the configuration is static. I would think it would be simple to
> implement something like this as a product, though it is beyond my
> current skill set.