Authenticating Apache from Zope, was Re: [Zope] Move Images to Filesystem from zodb via FTP and WebDAV

Paul Winkler pw_lists at slinkp.com
Mon Nov 29 16:26:34 EST 2004


On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 09:51:14PM +0100, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Apparently, all you use from Zope is its authentication.
> 
> You might use Apache instead for the WebDAV access and use
> its external authentication to just delegate authentication
> to Zope.

I've briefly considered this before, but AFAICT all it does is
handle authentication, not authorization. In other words,
apache will authenticate against zope, but you still need to
use .htaccess files to tell apache which users can access which data.
Am I wrong? I'd love to be wrong :-)

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Paul Winkler
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