[Zope] advice re virtual hosting

J. Atwood jatwood@bwanazulia.com
Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:18:29 -0400


Hey Jonathan,

I don't know about the 'best' way, but you certainly can use 
SiteAccess. You point the main url to your Zope installation (and 
that is nothing) and you put a SiteRoot in the red folder and it will 
take care of www.red.com.

http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/SiteAccess2/vhosting

J

At 10:59 AM +0100 10/27/2000, Jonathan Cheyne wrote:
>Hi all, just need to check the received wisdom regarding the various
>possible combinations for doing virtual hosting with zope.
>
>I have two domains, one is 'mine' and I want that to go to the root of
>my zope installation. the other domain is for an internal client and I
>want that to go to a folder within my zope (so they can acquire some of
>my content).
>
>i.e.
>www.blue.com --> zopeserver/
>www.red.com  --> zopeserver/red/
>
>Whats the best way?
>
>There seem to be three or four options, apache on 80 with zope on 8080
>using virtual hosts on both (either?), squid on 80 and zope on 8080 and
>finally zope alone on 80.
>
>The site will be relatively low traffic for the root branch but higher
>public traffic for the clients branch.
>
>Whats the 'best' way? I got apache to front zope with proxypass and with
>proxying on and seemed to get better performance. What about
>flexibility? What about rewriting versus virtual hosts?
>
>Ah so many juicy options!
>
>I have a colocated box and the isp is holding two domains pointed at the
>same ip address so I guess name based vhosts are the way by default but
>is it better to try and get zope to do it alone on 80 (is this
>possible?) or is it always better to have apache do it. I don't forsee
>any need for genuinely static content that cannot be served from zope.
>
>Your advice gratefully received.
>
>Jonathan
>
>
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