[Zope] Using Apache rewrite to server Zope/Plone - VirtualHostMonster and / or SiteAccess?

[Simon Forster]

On 17 Jun 2004, at 11:12, Cormac McClean wrote:

> Using Apache with ZServer (NOT Zope.cgi)

FWIW, I used the instructions found at 
<http://zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver> to configure the proxy 
pass module for an Apache virtual host. I have not touched the virtual 
host monster and don't have any great plans to ever use it. In your 
case, you'd configure Apache so that
erebus.ait.ie just maps through to the appropriate folder in Zope.


<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName erebus.ait.ie

ProxyPass / http://erebus.ait.ie:8080/pathToRootForSite/
ProxyPassReverse / http://erebus.ait.ie:8080/pathToRootForSite/

  </VirtualHost>

You do need to setup the proxypass module in Apache of course.

I've read a post or two about how this is all a security concern but 
reading mod_proxy's docs 
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_proxy.html>, the worry seems to 
be with the ProxyRequests directive which is off by default. If you 
allow ProxyPass and the sister ProxyPassReverse directives on a per 
(virtual) host basis, you should to be OK - even more so as your server 
is an internal one.

HTH

Simon Forster
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