[Zope] Do I understand this correctly?

[Tiller, Michael (M.M.)]

Chris,

  Thanks for the link.  This is typical of many of the issues that I have with Zope.  I don't always know where to go for the current documentation on things.

  The link you gave helps, but something strange is going on.  I created a VHM and it only had one tab?!?  I even deleted that instance and created another instance to make sure that I hadn't done something wrong when I created it.  Still just one tab?!?

  I read about this Mapping tab but I thought that perhaps the documentation was a bit old.  This theory was given more credibility by the explanatory text given in the VHM instance which seemed to be saying "All you need is this and this funky URL".

  I don't have access to the machine right now, but I'll take all this under advisement as I attempt this once more.  Hopefully now that I know the definitive way of doing this I can dig a little deeper to figure out what is going on with my setup.

  Thanks to everyone for the help.  It looks like VHM is the way to go.

P.S. - If VHM is the right way to go, why does the Plone installer for Windows use Access Rules to accomplish what seems to be the same thing?!?

--
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris McDonough [mailto:chrism at zopemafia.com]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:50 AM
To: Tiller, Michael (M.M.)
Cc: 'zope at zope.org'
Subject: Re: [Zope] Do I understand this correctly?


Hi Michael,

Have you read this:

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

- C


On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 11:28, Tiller, Michael (M.M.) wrote:
> I've been trying to understand how to setup virtual hosting and I have a few simple questions...
> 
> 1) After reading the VHM documentation (that you can access when you create an instance of a VHM) that the VHM mechanism relies on something upstream (e.g. Apache) rewriting the URL to include this structure that VHM talks about?  More to the point, is it correct to say that VHM is worthless without such a priori URL manipulation?
> 
> 2) It seems like access rules are sufficient for what I want to do (host different sites from a single Zope server, each with their own directories).  However, when I tried to use the simple example from Zope.org at http://zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess2/vhosting, I couldn't get even the simple DTML Method code in Example 2 to work.  It just didn't seem to do anything.  Is that example current with the site access and access rule functionality in Zope-2.6.2?
> 
> --
> Mike
> 
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