Fwd: [Zope] Server Spontaneously Quitting

[Troy Farrell]

Looks good.  I'd make one change.  In my setups, I'm adamant that Zope 
is not accessed, except by via apache.  I edit my zope setup to listen 
only on localhost (127.0.0.1) and change my Apache RewriteRules to use 
that instead of the server ip (111.111.111.111.)  I also like my 
managing to be done via https so passwords are not passed cleartext. 
For that to work, I have an additional domain (or sub-domain.)

Zope looks like this:

Zope root (zope.domain.com)
  + buystuff (buystuff.com)
  + mycause (mycause.com)

Apache listens on 443 and 80, then I use the following rewrite rules

buystuff.com:
     # Zope management rule
     RewriteRule ^(.*)/manage(.*) 
https://zope.domain.com/buystuff$1/manage$2 [R]
     # Zope VHM rule
     RewriteRule ^/(.*) 
http://127.0.0.1:8081/VirtualHostBase/http/www.buystuff.com:80/buystuff/VirtualHostRoot/$1 
[L,P]

mycause.org:
     # Zope management rule
     RewriteRule ^(.*)/manage(.*) 
https://zope.domain.com/mycause$1/manage$2 [R]
     # Zope VHM rule
     RewriteRule ^/(.*) 
http://127.0.0.1:8081/VirtualHostBase/http/www.mycause.org:80/mycause/VirtualHostRoot/$1 
[L,P]

This way, you only have one IP and one SSL cert - saves money.  BTW, 
'buystuff$1' is not a typo.  It's needed because the pattern match 
includes the forward-slash.

Troy

Patrick Kirk wrote:
> OK.  I'd be grateful if others on the list would read this as well to 
> provide a sanity check.
> 
> Step 1: Put a Virtual Host Monster in your Zope root folder.  Give it a 
> unique id but it really doesn't matter what you call it.
> 
> Step 2: Let us assume you have a site called http://www.buystuff.com 
> served from a folder called "buystuff" in your root directory and a site 
> called http://www.mycause.org is served from "mycause" folder.  Lets 
> also assume your IP is 111.111.111.111 and Zope is on port 8081 with 
> Apache on port 80.
> 
> Step 3: The virtual hosts section for www.buystuff.com will read:
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>     ServerAdmin you at you.com
>     DocumentRoot /this/does/not/matter
>     ServerName www.buystuff.com
>     ErrorLog logs/www.buystuff.com-error_log
>     CustomLog logs/www.buystuff.com-access_log common
>     RewriteEngine on
>     RewriteRule ^/(.*) 
> http://111.111.111.111:8081/VirtualHostBase/http/www.buystuff.com:80/buystuff/VirtualHostRoot/$1 
> [NC,L,P]
> 
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> Step 4: The virtual hosts section for www.mycause.org will read:
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>     ServerAdmin you at you.com
>     DocumentRoot /this/does/not/matter
>     ServerName www.mycause.org
>     ErrorLog logs/www.mycause.org-error_log
>     CustomLog logs/www.mycause.org-access_log common
>     RewriteEngine on
>     RewriteRule ^/(.*) 
> http://111.111.111.111:8081/VirtualHostBase/http/www.mycause.org:80/mycause/VirtualHostRoot/$1 
> [NC,L,P]
> 
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> Apart from the [NC,L,P] this is from the virtual host monster 
> documentation.  And others on this list gave me them!
> 
> Step 5: Run the command "apachectl configtest" and it will tell you if 
> there are any syntax errors without requiring you to restart apache and 
> find out the hard way you've put a comma in the wrong place.
> 
> Step 6: Run "apachectl restart" and your sites should now be served from 
> Zope through Apache.  And the beauty of it is that it just works.
> 
> If you have any problems, let us know.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Patrick Kirk