Using Zope With Apache - Performing By Proxy (
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Of course, there are other ways to get Zope and Apache talking as well.
One of the most interesting involves using Apache's proxy module to
transparently pass Zope requests to the ZServer.
The first step is to make sure that your Apache build includes support
for the proxy module (look for "mod_proxy.c" in the output of "httpd
-l"). If it doesn't, you can recompile Apache by doing the following:
$ cd /tmp/sources
$ tar -xzvf apache_1.3.20.tar.gz
$ cd apache_1.3.20
$ ./configure --enable-module=proxy
$ make
$ make install
Once the program has been installed, pop open "httpd.conf" and add the
following lines to it:
ProxyPass /community http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /community http://localhost:8080/
This tells the server to intercept all requests for the URL /community
(the first argument to ProxyPass), and redirect them to the Zope server
(the second argument).
While this approach is simple, it does have a few glitches. Take a look
at
http://www.zope.org/Members/anser/apache_zserver for a detailed
explanation of these problems, together with some very elegant hacks
that solve them quite well.
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