[Zope] Apache ProxyPass + Zope == bad?

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Reformated message, for readability ...
Chris, do you have a new mail client? ;-)

Chris McDonough wrote:
> Ouch. ;-)  How did you fix it with mod_rewrite, out of curiosity?
 >

 > Zachery Bir" <zbir@urbanape.com> wrote:
 >>Just a word. Don't know if it's been brought up before, but
 >>mod_proxy, using the details on zope.org ( even though outdated )
 >>like this:
 >>
 >>NameVirtualHost 192.192.123.234
 >>
 >><VirtualHost 192.192.123.234>
 >>ServerName www.fightclub.org
 >>ServerAdmin tyler@fightclub.org
 >>
 >>ProxyPass / http://zserver.xyz.com:9180/fightclub/
 >>ProxyPassReverse / http://zserver.xyz.com:9180/fightclub/
 >>ProxyPass /misc_ http://zserver.xyz.com:9180/misc_
 >>ProxyPass /p_ http://zserver.xyz.com:9180/p_
 >>
 >></VirtualHost>
 >>
 >>Will open up your server to be a Proxy server on the net.
 >>
 >>I've found that this isn't the case with mod_rewrite and
 >>VirtualHostMonster.
 >>[SNIP]

The above is not quite correct.
Look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxyrequests
You have to explicitly enable that stuff (via "ProxyRequests on"),
but ProxyPass will work anyway - maybe some braindead distributions/*nix 
products enable that by default.

cheers,
oliver