[Zope] Zope auhtentification with Apache

[Oliver Bleutgen]

sophie seillier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I work for a company which wants to integrate Zope and still use the web 
> server Apache.
> I have to do tests to validate this way, and I have problems....
> I have no problem to access Zope pages when there isn't 
> authentification, but I don't manage to delegate the authentification to 
> Zope, and I can't access the Zope "manage" page. I follow the Zope 
> documentations' instructions whitout success. I modified the httpd.conf 
> file with :
> 
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
> RewriteRule ^/Zope(.*) /var/www/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/$1 
> [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]
> 

Use apache as a proxy with the rewrite rules in proxy mode ([P]-flag). 
That way, you can still serve local pages, by rewriting just a special 
path (i.e. /zope). Save yourself the trouble with the cgi-stuff.

I think on of the various apache-as-proxy-in-front-of-zope howtos on 
zope.org describe how to do that, but it's quite not so hard to figure 
out it yourself.

cheers,
oliver