[Zope] Serving proxy content from zope

Ramarao Kanneganti rama@aalayance.com
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:25:03 -0400


No -- It is not one of those how do I reverse proxy from apache to
access Zope.

I want to do other way round. That is, I have a perfectly
functioning zope server on port 80. I have, for legacy reasons, some
apache servers. I want to serve content from them as a part of the
zope server.

Problems:

1. There does not seem to be a way to proxy external content into
zope, as smoothly as proxypass does.

2. Even if it does, there seems to be the issue of urls in the
external content.

Eg: Suppose somehow I manage to get the extenal content and serve it
as under the url /server1. Now suppose the external content has a
link "/mystuff" in some text. I would have liked it to show up
as "/server1/mystuff", so that all of it works out. How can I do
that?

Thanks in advance.
Rama

PS: Btw, what I am doing is not so crazy. Zope gives me all the
integration I need with fine grained security mechanism I need. I
just want to be able to use it, even if there is other dynamic content
around.

PPS: I searched the mailing lists, but apache and reverse proxy
brings up too many references to how to run zope behind apache!