[Zope] tunneling via ...

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007, David Bear wrote:
>I am in a situation will I may soon need to outsource the running of
>my apache server. This may be a good thing. However, I cannot
>outsource the running of my zope server. So I have the situation where
>apache will be running on a separate box from my zope server and I am
>wondering how to make sure I have a secure connection between the
>apache server that I don't control that will be using modproxy/rewrite
>rules to get content out of my zope server.
>
>Currently, zope only binds to 127.0.0.1 and apacy proxy connects.
>
>Using a remote apache server implies that I will need to have zope
>listen on a public interface. However, I will still need to secure it
>so I was considering openssl or something like that.

Can you use openvpn to create a tunnel between the apache server
and your zope server, then run zope on a private interface?

Bill
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