[Zope] Can't build resource file for PCGI on Zope 2.7b1

[Jens Vagelpohl]

Unless you have a pressing reason to choose PCGI do not do it. Use 
RewriteRules with Apache to achieve the desired effect simpler and more 
efficiently. Have your Zope listen on a local port on that machine.

jens


On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 04:03 US/Eastern, Aguido Horatio Davis 
wrote:

>
> G'day,
>
> I am installing Zope on a server whose only Python is 2.3 and which is
> already running Apache on port 80. Port 80 is the only one that is 
> permitted
> through our local firewalls, a small but significant percentage of the
> audience are outside the firewall, and the system administrator (who 
> isn't
> me) refuses point-blank to permit the use of mod_fastcgi or mod_proxy.
>
> So I'm trying to build Zope 2.7b1 with PCGI support. When the dust 
> settles
> on the "make build; make install" there is no Zope.cgi to be seen. The 
> file
> doc/WEBSERVERS.txt has the intriguing sentence:
>
>   To install PCGI, please get the PCGI support package from XXX, and
>   read the pcgi/README.txt file from that package.
>
> and then blithely describes what to do once you _have_ a Zope.cgi file 
> to
> play with.
>
> Can anybody point me at the mysterious XXX, or failing that, tell me 
> how to
> coerce Zope 2.7 into coughing up a Zope.cgi file?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Horatio
>