[Zope] Fw: Apache and Zope

[James L. Hartwell]

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Everitt <paul@digicool.com>
To: James L. Hartwell <hartwelljl@hartwellconsulting.com>
Cc: info@digicool.com <info@digicool.com>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: Apache and Zope


>
>Unfortunately you won't get as good answers sending email to
>info@digicool.com.  This subject comes up repeatedly on the main
>zope@zope.org list and the folks there have pretty much seen it all, so
>I suggest sending your message there.
>
>Apache, and mod_rewrite in particular, can be an *extreme* bear to
>configure.  For instance the Apache that shipped with RedHat 5.2
>silently failed to load the Apache mod_rewrite module, which was
>supplied as a dynamically linked extension.  As soon as it was
>statically compiled in, it worked fine.
>
>--Paul
>
>"James L. Hartwell" wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> We've been thorugh a number of stumbling blocks while attepting to get
>> Zope to run with Apache.
>> 
>> We are using Zope2.0.0b3 which we have installed under /usr/local.
>> 
>> On one server we are unable to login when we execute the
>> http:/server/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/manage script.  We have tried letting
>> Zope set
>> the password when it installs and we have tried setting our own
>> password.
>> 
>> In either case, when we type in the super user id and the password, we
>> keep
>> getting permission denied.  We have checked permissions on directories
>> in
>> the Zope directory.
>> 
>> We added the authorization pass through information in
>> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf based on the documentation.  And we
>> *believe*
>> that is is correct. -- we used the rewriteengine scheme in httpd.conf
>> rather
>> than recompile Apache.
>> 
>> --------
>> 
>> We installed the same zope version on one web server.  There we
>> have repeatedly checked and double checked the apache *.conf files.
>> They
>> (except for the development virtual servers) are the same as the
>> other conf files.
>> 
>> On one machine we get an error message saying that the resource
>> we are trying to get is unavailable.  We suspected permissions on the
>> files
>> and directories under Zope, but they seem ok.
>> 
>> On both machines, we cd into the Zope directory run ./start (we
>> initially
>> thought that that was strictly for running ZServer, but found that it
>> got us p
>> ast the temporarily unavailable message.  So we are asusming
>> that we need to run this.
>> 
>> Then we try accessing the cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/manage script as mentioned
>> earlier.
>> 
>> Thanks for the help
>