[Zope] apache rules with zope

[Jonathan (dev101)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Bennett" <bennetttm at appstate.edu>
To: "Jonathan (dev101)" <dev101 at magma.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] apache rules with zope


> I'm trying to serve the files on the underlying directories straight 
> through
> apache with no zope interaction.
>
> My main site has all content on zope.  I now have content also on the
> filesystem I want to server without leaving the site.  From
> http://wiki.zope.org/zope2/ZopeAndApache I found I could supposedly use a
> rewrite condition to do such. So usiing the rewrite condition:
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(usage|zusage|ead2002|asu_ead)
>
> I thought would work.  I have found why the usage and zusage directories 
> work,
> there is a usage and zusage directory on the zope system so it hasn't been
> using the file system at all for any of them.
>
> Below is the excerpt from wiki.zope.org that explains how to do this, 
> which
> doesn't work for me.
>
> "A lot of site content is in Zope, some parts are served directly by 
> apache
>
> For this, we use the RewriteRule? where everything is inside Zope, but 
> slap a
> RewriteCond? in front of it:
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(stats|manual|static_images)
> RewriteRule ^(.*) \
> http://127.0.0.1:8080/VirtualHostBase/\
> http/%{SERVER_NAME}:80/www_example_com/VirtualHostRoot$1 [L,P]


Make sure you are directing zope requests to port 8080 and apache (direct 
file access) requests to port 80 (assuming you have zope listening on 8080).


Jonathan