[Zope] Most efficient use of url rewriting and virtual host monster.

[Alec Munro]

Dylan Reinhardt wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 08:54, Alec Munro wrote:
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>>I guess what I'm really looking for is a good explanation for virtual 
>>host root, as well some insight in how zope generates urls.
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>All you need is to create a VHM instance. It doesn't actually matter
>what you call it.
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>Let's say domain_name.com is hosted from here in the Zope hierarchy:
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>/sites/domain_name
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>Put this in domain_name's virtual host block in Apache (one line):
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>RewriteRule ^/(.*)
>http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/www.domain_name.com:80/sites/domain_name/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P]
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>Reload Apache and you should be good to go.
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>HTH,
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>Dylan
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Thanks for the response, but I have more specific problems than simply 
getting it working.
The main problem I seem to have at the moment is that when I do the 
above, so that I have the Virtual Host Root set up the way I want it, 
then restrictedTraverse stops working.
I use it in many places, and when I have the VHR set, it seems like it 
works from the root of the zope instance itself, so if I am traversing 
("/HTML/somePage") it will give me a KeyError if I don't have this in 
the root of my zope instance. What I assume is happening is that when I 
use restrictedTraverse on a string that came from an absolute_url, then 
the url is truncated when I'm using a VHM, and I get "/HTML/somePage" 
instead of "/folder/xyz/HTML/somePage". Is there some way I can adapt 
restrictedTraverse to root it in a certain directory? Or will I need to 
prefix all my absolute_urls with the path to the parent folder. Or is 
there a function like absolute_url that will disregard the VHR?

I know that was long, so thanks for reading.

Thanks,

Alec Munro