[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] PCGI?

[Chris Withers]

Jamie Heilman wrote:
> This means you could effectively use pcgi with a single apache
> instance fronting for several zope+pcgi instances in a virtual-hosting
> scenario.  (I used mod_pcgi2 for this purpose.)  This had several
> seperation advantages as you can then run the zope instances as
> different users, ensuring your zope vhosts have no ability to
> cross-contaminate eachother at the zodb level, plus it was easy to
> define a filesystem namespace for every vhost (all of customer Foo's
> files go in ~foo, nice and easy).

We do all of this using mod_rewrite and mod_proxy.

 > just fell over if you looked at it funny.  That means virtual hosting
 > then requires either managing a battery of internal interface aliases,
 > or a map of ports on some internal interface, or throwing all your
 > eggs into one basket (zodb).

...and we don't do any of this, as far as I'm aware.

cheers,

Chris