[Zope] Re: SSL and ProxyPass

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamar@maxnm.com
Thu, 11 May 2000 11:19:20 +0300


anser wrote:

> > I haven't found anything in the HowTo that says how one would deal
> > with SSL so I _guess_ it's not possible. Is that true?

> ProxyPass creates a complete separate TCP connection on the backside.
> Assuming you want to use an SSL connection between the users and your Apache
> front end, and a non-SSL connection between the Apache proxy and your Zope
> back server, Apache does this easily.  Just make sure Apache is built with
> SSL support, and add the SSLEngine, SSLCertificateFile, and
> SSLCertificateKeyFile directives to the overall config or VirtualHost
> section.

Won't there problems with BASE?  The SiteRoot objects set the base to
"http://www.example.com", not "https://www.example.com".

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Itamar S.T.  itamar@maxnm.com