[Zope] Virtual Host Monster mapping behavior

[Chris Withers]

Roy Hashimoto wrote:

> I wanted to access Zope using HTTPS without using Apache (just because
> it seemed like overkill).  

?!

Apache is your best bet by a long long long long way here...

I managed to get things to work using stunnel
> to wrap everything in SSL:
> 
> stunnel -d 8443 -r 8080
> 
> and using Virtual Host Monster to rewrite the incoming URLs with an
> entry on the Mapping tab (instead of using Apache to rewrite):
> 
> myhost.com/VirtualHostBase/https/myhost.com:8443/VirtualHostRoot
> 
> This seems to work just fine (on Zope 2.7).  My question is whether
> this is a supported use of the VHM mapping feature.  

Sure it is :-)

> elements in a mapping; they emphasize mapping host names to folders.

That's the most common usecase, yes...

cheers,

Chris

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