[Zope] Complicated mix of http, https, and ProxyPass

[Oliver Bleutgen]

> I'm having quite the issue right now and am wondering if there is a
> workaround
> for it. (let me know if i'm posting to the wrong place)

> Basically my setup is as follows:

> I have apache 1.3.19/mod_ssl running with ProxyPass setup for /Zope to
> "localhost:9080.."  I want, however, */manage to always go over SSL.  I
> already
> have it setup to block non-ssl attempts to */manage with FilesMatch rules
> in
> apache.  I don't want the rest of the site to go require SSL, but the only
> way,
> apparently to have */manage use SSL is to have a siteroot object with the
> base
> set to https.  This makes every link that uses that dtml variable use
> https.

> Is there any way I could only have admin interface require SSL?  Without
> having
> the rest of the site do so?

As far as I see, such a setup should be possible with
virtual host monster instead of siteroot.
This way you control through rewriting in apache
how the urls in zope are constructed.

cheers,
oliver