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Issue #291 Update (Reject) "Virtual Hosting Docs wrong"
 Status Rejected, content/bug low
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= Reject - Entry #2 by loreto on Dec 23, 2003 10:32 am

 Status: Pending => Rejected

Hi, 

please send this comments tho Zope Book people. You can find them at theire names at the book preface. 

Also you can add comments at the online version of the book.

This collector is used to structural site things.

Thanks
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= Request - Entry #1 by Anonymous User on Nov 15, 2003 2:19 pm

I was following the Virtual Hosting Services (Book 2.6)
It is helpful in the beginning; at about 

View the DTML Method by clicking on its View tab, and you will see something like the following:

Absolute URL   http://localhost:8080/vhm_test 
URL0           http://localhost:8080/vhm_test/index_html
URL1           http://localhost:8080/vhm_test 

this ends, though.

View vhm_test/index.html bring this result, yes.
But the next line:
 Now visit the URL http://localhost:8080/vhm_test. You will be presented with something that looks almost exactly the same. 
is wrong. It still has to be .../vhm_test/index.html
Same applies to the following line. The example further down suffers from the same problem:
http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/zope.com:80/vhm_test/VirtualHostRoot/
index.html needs to be added

The whole passage about supplementing /etc/hosts for apache is useless, because not needed. localhost:8080 will do, and without 127.0.0.1 localhost in /etc/hosts almost nothing will work. (In short: the whole passage is not needed)

Rewriting the Apache rules as described will lead to 'Access Forbidden'; at least here it does. Only way around: mod_proxy.
That the author happens to be rather incompetent is reflected on that page:
... VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P]
[P] stands for proxy. So without, the whole thing will not function.
While mod_rewrite is well described, the necessity of mod_proxy is not mentioned.

May I suggest you have the page corrected; since a newbie won't find the way through this half-brew.


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