[Zope] More than one web server on a site?

Mitch Pirtle mitchy at spacemonkeylabs.com
Thu Oct 30 12:38:07 EST 2003


> Real, real dumb question here.  Is it possible to have a single computer
> on the net run both zserver and some other server like Apache?
>
> There might be cases in which somebody has some legacy web site which is
> basically just html and forms, and wants to add some feature which works
> via Zope.  If he could have both servers, he could just link to the Zope
> feature.

The most common practice is running zope with apache in front - that way
you can keep your static content on apache, and just reverse proxy zope
content.  The Zope Book has a chapter specifically on this subject:

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

HTH,

-- Mitch




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