[Zope] apache authentication with proxy -- remote user mode

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 20:01:26 +0200


zope-mailinglist writes:
 > ...
 > sorry, forgot to state that zope already runs in _remote_user_mode
 > the problem seems to be that zope looks in request.environ['REMOTE_USER']
 > which is not present in the zope process, only in the apache process -- 
 > seems that remote_user_mode is only for cgi mode, where apache passes 
 > its environment variables to the cgi.
Tell Apache to pass the "REMOTE_USER" information.

Apache "Rewrite" rules provide provisions to set environment
variables. Look at the "Rewrite rule" documentation.


Dieter