[Zope] Virtual Site Root problems

[Mike Renfro]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 12:53:29PM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote:

> I currently use 
> Zope 2.3.3 (source release, python 1.5.2, linux2) (Debianzied Version).
> 
> I installed VirtualSiteRoot-1-0-0 as Product.
> 
> Now I have the problem that I can't copy/paste into or out from a 
> directory that has such a virtual site root.

Try a VirtualHostMonster instead; it may work out easier. There are
probably other solutions in the mailing list archives. In any case,
details of my setup are at
http://www.zope.org/Members/mwr/VHosts_With_Zope_Default

> I even would appreciate any other way to implement virtual hosts that 
> enables (or restricts) accessing the management interface through 
> https. (Also, a way to access / through https would be appreciated).
> Is the CGI interface a way to do this?

You should be able to use Apache RewriteRules to send non-secure
/manage requests somewhere other than the ZMI -- for example, to a
Zope-hosted or Apache-hosted page that either gives instructions or
maybe even offers a redirect to the https version.

However, understand that any page on a Zope site could require
authentication, and by the time your Zope server saw any
username/password responses, it would already be too late.

-- 
Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu