[Zope] Help with virtual hosting Zope on different ports

[Michael Sanborn]

I was a little reluctant to try this, since I'm not that agile with
installing unix applications, but I gave it a shot. It actually wasn't
that hard to install, and the performance difference it makes on my
rickety old box is astonishing!

Thank you very much for this tip!

Jonathan Cyr wrote:
> Unless you need some special Apache functionality, you may want to look and the Pound Rev-Proxy/Load Balancer at http://www.apsis.ch/pound.  I find it much easier than getting involved with apache, it's lightweight, secure and designed with Zope in mind.
>
> two cents,
>
> -Jon.
>
> Michael Sanborn wrote:
>>I have two Zope versions running behind Apache 1.3 (on FreeBSD 4)
>>using different ports on the same server. The only domain name
>>currently assigned to the server is for a Squishdot site on the older
>>Zope version (2.5.1) that I haven't been able to upgrade, and I don't
>>want to spend the time figuring it out right now. The newer Zope
>>version (2.8.1) has a Plone site that I would like to run as a domain
>>of its own.
>>
>>Can someone help me figure out the combination of Apache rewrite rules
>>and Zope/Plone products I would need to use to accomplish this?
>>
>>Just to try to make it clear, what I want is:
>>
>>request: oldsite.com
>>result: myserver:8093/oldsite
>>
>>request: newsite.com
>>result: myserver:8580/newsite
>>
>>This is possible, isn't it?
>>
>>If it helps, here are the existing rewrite rules:
>>
>><VirtualHost oldsite.com>
>>ServerName oldsite.com
>>ServerAdmin webmaster at oldsite.com
>>DocumentRoot /u2/oldsite
>>ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /u2/oldsite.cgi-bin/
>>RewriteEngine on
>>RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization}  ^(.*)
>>RewriteRule ^/(oldsite/)?(.*) /usr/local/Zope/Zope.cgi/oldsite/$2
>>[e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%2,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]
>>ErrorLog /u2/oldsite.admin/oldsite.errors
>>TransferLog /u2/oldsite.admin/oldsite.access
>></VirtualHost>
>>
>><VirtualHost www.oldsite.com>
>>ServerName www.oldsite.com
>>ServerAdmin webmaster at oldsite.com
>>DocumentRoot /u2/oldsite
>>ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /u2/oldsite.cgi-bin/
>>RewriteEngine on
>>RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization}  ^(.*)
>>RewriteRule ^/(oldsite/)?(.*) /usr/local/Zope/Zope.cgi/oldsite/$2
>>[e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%2,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]
>>ErrorLog /u2/oldsite.admin/oldsite.errors
>>TransferLog /u2/oldsite.admin/oldsite.access
>></VirtualHost>
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any assistance,
>>
>>Michael Sanborn