[Zope] Virtual Hosting configuration for Zope

[Alan Capesius]

I suppose you could do multiples with a simple -or- arrangement. Your =
solution (and mine to some extent) are similar to the SiteRoot examples.
My goal was to take the editing of the accessrule out of the picture so =
I (or others) don't  accidentally lock everyone out. The HostsTable =
accomplishes this nicely. It also allows easy multiple aliasing.

thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Adam Kendall [mailto:mak@kha0s.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 10:06 PM
> To: Alan Capesius
> Cc: zope@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Virtual Hosting configuration for Zope
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> Here is the access rule if you want to take a gander:
> <dtml-let
> virtual_dir=3D"_.string.lower(_.string.join(_.string.split(_.string.
> split(HTTP_HOST, ':')[0],'.')[:],'_'))">
>  <dtml-if "virtual_dir !=3D 'manager_host_com'"> =20
>    <dtml-if expr=3D"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>
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> 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
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> 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 ;-)
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> --Adam
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> 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.
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> > 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.
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