[Zope] Zope and Apache: root of ZODB reference problem?

[Chris McDonough]

Darran,

I think your mailer has a Y2K problem as your message header is as
follows:

Subject: 
        [Zope] Zope and Apache: root of ZODB reference problem?
   Date: 
        Fri, 7 Jan 100 17:48:55 +1100 (EST)
   From: 
        Darran Edmundson <dee124@rsphy1.anu.edu.au>
     To: 
        zope@zope.org

Have you tried removing the terminal slash in the rewrite rule?

Darran Edmundson wrote:
> 
> Hi Zopesters,
> 
> We have a problem with our Zope under Apache installation.
> Namely, the rename|cut|copy|delete|export buttons do not work
> for checkbox selections in the root of the ZODB.
> 
>     [check any item in the root, ie. "standard_html_header"]
>     [hit any of the above-named buttons, ie. "rename"]
> 
>     Not Found
>     The requested URL /optics was not found on this server.
> 
> The problem seems to be a missing terminal slash in the
> URL generated by the management interface web pages.  That
> is, on our system Apache requires URLs of the form
> http://our.ip.address/optics/ to find the Zope cgi script.
> The rewrite rule for our installation is:
> 
>     RewriteRule ^/optics/(.*) /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/$1
>     [e=HTTP_CGI_AUTHORIZATION:%1,t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l]
> 
> Any ideas about how to circumvent this problem?  (A non-Zope aside,
> can I intercept the URL that is being generated by my browser
> when using forms if I can't get access to the Apache logs?)
> 
> Any help is much appreciated.
> 
> Darran.
> 
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Chris McDonough
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