[Zope] URL Rewriting chaos

[Chris Withers]

zope at tropolinux.com wrote:
> 1. Host monsters, both one in the zope root folder, and multiple in each 
> plone site's folders.  I have tried both with the mappings and without 
> (even though the books say they're not needed with apache).

You should only have one of these, in the root of your Zope instance.

> 2. apache rewrite rules, this is how (the current attempt looks)
> please assume that the big url is all on one line, email programs may 
> have changed that.
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>   ServerName example.net
>   RewriteEngine On
>   RewriteRule ^/(.*) 
> http://example.net:8080

          ^^^^^^^^^^^

This should be however you'd go directly to the Zope instance from the 
machine where Apache is running.

> /plone_site/VirtualHostBase/http/example.net:80/Virtu 
> alHostRoot/$1 [L,P]
> </VirtualHost>
> I have tried all combinations of things in the 'example.net' places 
> above, including the fqdn, local ip number and local host name.
> Is there a shortcoming in the documentation here? 

I don't think so, I remember reading pretty good docs for this and there 
are a myriad of examples if you google...

cheers,

Chris

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