[Zope] Re: Doing zope administration from remote computer

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004, Josef Meile wrote:
>>  I am a newbie in networking and developing webserver. I have already
>> succesfull to installed zope from source in my linux mandrake  9. But 
>I don't
>> know how to do administrative work from other computer, doing remote. 
> My
>> host is http://localhost:8080/ but after I type that host in other 
>computer,
>> it cannot be done except from my own computer which is installed the 
>zope.
>It is normal 'cause localhost is what the word says: a host which is 
>local to the current machine. It won't work from other machine.
>
>> How do I do remote administrative work anyway?
>Supposing that you are connected to the network of a company, then you 
>have to use the hostname of your machine or ip address in case that you 
>use something like dhcp. ie:
>
>http://abc.def.ghi.jkl:8080/manage -> this should be your ip. Get this 
>info by giving ipconfig in Windows, or ifconfig on linux.
>
>http://myhostname.mydomain:8080/manage

I typically put the zope interface on a private interface not accessible by
the general public (e.g. 192.168.x.x:8080) allowing access from the private
internal LAN or by appropriate VPN connections to the server.  My main
reason for doing it this way is that I haven't found a way to make
ExternlEditor work on an Apache rewritten connection.  When I have to
access from a site where I can't get an IPSec tunnel (say behind a NAT
firewall) I've used PPP over an ssh connection to get to the private
address.

It's also possible to handle this with apache rewrites using URLs specific
to the management (e.g. http://www.example.com/zope/...)  with the rewrites
going to localhost:8080.

Bill
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