[Zope] future direction (was "problems with SiteRoot in Zope 2.5.1")

[Jack Coates]

So, speaking as a perennial Zope newbie, I have to say that I'm getting
nervous about seeing all the things that I use fall one-by-one into the
"that's depreciated, use this other cool product instead." I don't think
I have a right to complain, but I'm complaining any way :-)

Jack

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 10:04, Evan Simpson wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
> > Yes, SiteRoots are no longer in favour with the powers that be. I still 
> > think they have their uses ;-)
> 
> Citizen Withers, your statement violates the Happy Voluntary Product 
> Guidelines.  Please report to the nearest PTB Help Station for 
> assistance. ;-)
> 
> >> Does anybody know whether it is possible to have a configuration with 
> >> both
> >> http and https directing to the same pages like the example in the above
> >> mentioned document (apache_zserver_ssl)?
> 
> Ria, we'll need more info on the problem you're having in order to help. 
>   If you do decide to try VHM, you should be able to get what you want 
> with the following steps:
> 
> 1. Create a VHM in your Zope root.  Call it whatever you like, as long 
> as the name doesn't clash with other objects ids, perhaps "vhm".
> 
> 2. In the Apache VirtualHost section for port 80, replace the ProxyPass 
> and ProxyPassReverse lines with the single line:
> 
>    ProxyPass / 
> http://zope_server:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/www.domain.com:80/site_path/VirtualHostRoot/
> 
> 3. In the Apache VirtualHost section for port 443 (https), replace the 
> ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse lines with the single line:
> 
>    ProxyPass / 
> http://zope_server:8080/VirtualHostBase/https/www.domain.com:80/site_path/VirtualHostRoot/
> 
> In the examples above, "zope_server:8080" is the host/port on which your 
> Zope is listening, "www.domain.com" is your site's domain name, and 
> "site_path" is the path from the root of your Zope to the Folder which 
> contains this site (leave it out if your site lives in the Zope root).
> 
> You can determine whether a particular request uses SSL by checking 
> "REQUEST['URL'].startswith('https')".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Evan @ 4-am
> 
> 
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Jack Coates
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