[Zope] Portal/Portlets Integration and SSL

[Dylan Reinhardt]

I'd suggest using Apache as a reverse proxy for Zope.  No sense in
setting up SSL for Zope if you've already got it set up for Apache.

See:

http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/VirtualHosting.stx

HTH,

Dylan


On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 05:58, John Wubbel wrote:
> I have built a portal using Jetspeed. It is configured on a Linux
> platform with Apache, Tomcat running behind the Apache and ZServer for
> the Zope. The Apache has been configured to be secure, has its own CA
> with the mod_jk connector between Apache and Tomcat. The portal of
> course has portlets of various web services and applications. A few
> portlets support the presentation of content coming from Zope. We do
> this using an IFrame portlet with a short piece of Java code on the
> server side to service the portlet. So, when the portlet comes up, it
> might contain a couple of hyper-links for the user to click on that will
> display a document within the portlet frame. Thus, the embedded links
> for the portlet will have a http://www.xyz.net:8000/... pointing to the
> location of the document. This all works fine, however now I have 1 or 2
> documents that are confidential and must be handled via https://... for
> a particular portlet. 
> 
> I have been experimenting without much success. The browser of course
> will indicate that not all components on the page are secure because of
> the fact that the embedded links in the page have http in them. As soon
> as I make the change to the https protocol, the links will not resolve.
> Do I have to somehow make the ZServer also SSL compliant in some manner
> in order for it to figure out what https means. Any help or comments
> would be very much appreciated. TIA.
> 
> John Wubbel
> John Wubbel Consultancy 
> 
> 
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