[Zope] Apache ProxyPass to Zope

Tino Wildenhain tino at wildenhain.de
Thu Oct 28 14:05:34 EDT 2004


Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Russell Seymour um 18:26:
> Good evening list,
> 
> I have been trying to get the REMOTE_USER variable to be seen by Zope.  
> I have almost got there by using various articles on the Internet, but I 
> need a little bit of help to get the last bit working.
> 
> I have got Apache performing the authentication and this works well as I 
> get the Zope page when I enter a valid username and password.  I have 
> noticed that the Z2 log file for my Zope instances contains the username 
> that I have used to access the site, but I cannot get Zope itself to see 
> the username - this is the most confusing bit for me as it surely means 
> that the username is being passed to Zope.

Why do you want to authenticate in Apache? Zope is much more fine 
grained when it comes to authentication. See if proxypass actually
forwards the auth header to zope - tcpwatch or tcpflow should help
here.

Regards
Tino



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