[Zope] SiteAccess (Enh. VHM) still needed, or merged to Zope?

[Tino Wildenhain]

Am Mittwoch, den 28.09.2005, 20:49 -0400 schrieb Jeff Kowalczyk:
> Most references I find (google, The Plone Book - McKay, Building Websites
> W/ Plone - Cooper) on virtual hosting Zope behind Apache recommend
> starting with sfm's SiteAccess enhanced Virtual Host Monster product:
> http://www.zope.org/Members/sfm/SiteAccessEnhanced/view
> 
> Reportedly last updated 2001-08-19, is SAE really so mature that it has
> not subsequently needed updates or merited a merge into Zope's own VHM?
> 
> I need to map the incoming URL "http://(*.)foo.com/new/*" to a Plone
> instance at "http://localhost:8080/foo/*" , and later change the
> inbound mapping to "http://(*.)foo.com/*" after customer acceptance.
> 
> I'm guessing that this is the most vanilla virtual hosting requirement
> possible, and I want to use the simplest configuration to accomplish it.
> If the old SEH 2.1.0 is the recommended tool with Zope-2.8.1, I'm sure the
> existing docs will be enough to figure it out. Thanks.

I believe Zopes VHM is the very SEH but updated since it became part
of zope. In recent zope versions there is in fact nothing to do to
use it because an instance is automatically created.

You only do the usual apache rewrite dance and be ready :)