[Zope] Apache ProxyPass to Zope

[Russell Seymour]

Good evening list,

I have been trying to get the REMOTE_USER variable to be seen by Zope.  
I have almost got there by using various articles on the Internet, but I 
need a little bit of help to get the last bit working.

I have got Apache performing the authentication and this works well as I 
get the Zope page when I enter a valid username and password.  I have 
noticed that the Z2 log file for my Zope instances contains the username 
that I have used to access the site, but I cannot get Zope itself to see 
the username - this is the most confusing bit for me as it surely means 
that the username is being passed to Zope.

The following is a snippet from my Apache:

<Location /zope>
    AuthName "Zope Access"
    AuthType Basic

    <AUTHENTICATION ROUTINES>
    require valid-user

    ProxyPass http://x.x.x.x:8080/zope

</Location>

ProxyPassReverse /zope http://x.x.x.x:8080/zope

This all works brilliantly apart from the fact that I cannot get the 
username in Zope.  I need this do I can do some custom authorisation to 
a database that my Zope application accesses.

I have tried many different variations using RewriteRule and trying to 
set the environment variables but to no avail.

Thanks to anyone that can give me some pointers.

Russell