[Zope] Zope and Apache configuration

[Kevin Carlson]

Not sure if I understand the complete situation at first glance, but it 
looks like Apache needs to have an authentication password created. Have 
you used "htpasswd" to do this?

Kevin

gbobeff@info.emn.fr wrote:

>Hi,
>I installed Zope and Apache in a windows 2000 platform.
>
>In order to configure Apache as the web server for Zope I have followed the many instructions to do that but it seems to work except for the authentication. The following are the step I made:
>
>1- Copy Zope.cgi file to <apache-directory>/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi
>
>After that I tried to browse http://myHost/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/manage and it asked me the user and password, I put Zope's user and pass but it doesn’t work.
>Then, I decided to follow the steps in 'Zope authentication with existing web servers' in WEBSERVER.txt
>2- I copied the following lines in the 'httpd.conf' file:
>
>RewriteEngine on
>RewriteLog logs/apache_rewrite_log
>RewriteLogLevel 0
>RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*)
>RewriteRule ^/Zope(.*) "E:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\cgi-bin\Zope.cgi\$1"  [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]
>
>Even that it didn't work, I mean it still asked me for the user and pass when I browsed through the Apache server but I cannot get the manage's page.
>So, I decide go further and follow the steps in the section 'Allowing your server to handle authentication itself'
>
>3- I create the 'access' file executing the command line:
>E:\Web\ZopeSite>python zpasswd.py --username=superuser --password=super access
>
>4- I create a user database for the Apache server performing the command line:
>E:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\bin>htpasswd users superuser super
>
>5- I copied the following lines in the 'httpd.conf' file:
><Location /cgi-bin/Zope/>
>AuthType Basic
>AuthName Zope-realm
>AuthUserFile "E:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\bin\users"
>require valid-user
></Location>
>
>6- I shutdown Zope
>7- I start Zope
>8- I browse http://myHost/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/manage and still I behave as always, any user and password combination seems to be the right one.
>
>Anyway the Zope server still works by using its web server, I mean through http://myHost:8080/manage
>
>So, obviously the question are:
>I miss something during the configuration procedure?
>Could be the spaces in the Apache's pathname the problem?
>
>Thanks
>
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