[Zope] Best Practice for Apache 2.0, Zope and SSL

[Gilles Lenfant]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Thorne" <rob at torenware.com>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 6:44 AM
Subject: [Zope] Best Practice for Apache 2.0, Zope and SSL


> I've spent some time looking through Zope.org for some enlightenment
> concerning how best to use Zope with SSL, but there are many different
> tutorials, with different answers.  What does the list currently
> recommend about the following options:
>
>     * Is there a good patch for ZServer to support https directly, or
>       should I run ZServer under Apache 2.0 with mod_ssl?
>     * Do I need to use the Zope.cgi script, and if not, how do I get
>       around it?
>     * How is mod_proxy used with SSL, and how is this different from
>       using mod_rewrite alone?
>     * Is it better to use Virtual Host Monsters or the "Site Access"
>       product to serve different sites from the same Zope instance.
>
> The various howtos and The Zope Book are all over the map on what to do
> in this case.  I'm curious which solution performs best for multiple
> sites under one instance.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>

I got problems with some pages when publishing Zope behind Apache 2 : The
content-length header is removed from Zope response, and in some situations,
it's a problem (i.e. viewing a PDF URL with IE).

It appears to be an Apache bug...

--Gilles