[Zope] why run apache in front of zope?

[David Hart]

On servers I administer, we do virtual hosting for many kinds of 
websites on the same server: filesystem+CGI, filesystem+PHP4, and Zope.

Apache provides a convenient and standard way to do virtual hosting. 
It's easy to front-end Zope sites with mod_proxy, plus I can enable gzip 
compression on any kind of site with mod_gzip and enable SSL encryption 
any kind of site with mod_ssl.

-dave

Marc Lindahl wrote:

>I asked the same question and concluded there's no benefit I can see - I
>ended up running SQUID in front of Zserver which seems to be just dandy, and
>SQUID offers security comparable (afik) to apache, if not better.
>
>on 10/19/02 9:05 PM, Garry Galinsky at garry@galinsky.net scrivened:
>  
>
>>This may be an obvious question to many, but not to me... why do so many
>>people run Zope behind an Apache server?  What are the benefits of an
>>Apache server, or otherwise, what are the limitations of the Zope web
>>server?  I currently run Zope alone and am evaluating the benefits of
>>use Apache.  Thanks.
>>
>>Garry Galinsky
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