[Zope] Re: Using Pound

[Dennis Allison]

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Paul Winkler wrote:

virtual host monster


On Mon, 5 May 2003, Maik Jablonski wrote:

> > What magic does one use to convince Zope to use the appropriate domain
> > name when it generates an absolute URL?
> 
> To set up several virtual hosts with Pound read:
> 
> http://www.apsis.ch/pound/
> 
> For Zope: Set up a VirtualHostMonster (=> Mappings) in each Zope which 
> maps the server-name to a folder, from which the site is served:
> 

Thanks Maik and Paul, but I am still confused.  

I have a number of independent Zope instances, call them zope0, zope1,
zope2 all residing on the same machine, each front-ended with pound.  
Incoming requests are distributed by pound, based on the domain name 

	alpha.mydomain.com
	beta.mydomain.com
	gamma.mydomain.com

to zope0, zope1, and zope2, respectivelys.  The DNS maps all of these
domains onto the same IP address.  Zope0, zope1, and zope2 are mapped to
independent (IP-address, port) pairs by pound.  In my non-working test
case, they go to 127.0.0.1:8080, :9080: 7080.

Now, an instance of zope, for example, zope1, needs to construct an
absolute URL.  The incoming request has been remapped by pound and appears
to have originated at 127.0.0.1:9080 but the absolute URL that's needed is 
http://beta.mydomain.com/....  I don't see how the virtual host monster 
makes this play.   (I do see how it could be used to do virtual hosting 
at each individual instance of Zope, but that's not what I want to do.)

Would I be better off were I to bind the zope instances to local
addresses, say 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, and 10.0.0.3 and make suitably adjust
named to return the qualified domain names?  Presumably Zope does a 
gethostbyaddr() to find its domain.