[Zope] Hiding Port Number in Zope

Phil Harris phil.harris@zope.co.uk
Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:28:09 -0000


Paul,

When you say MSIE do you really mean IIS, MSIE is Internet Explorer which=
 as
you probably know is a browser.

IIS is Microsoft's attempt at a web server.

Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Zwarts" <paul.zwarts@oratrix.com>
To: "Tino Wildenhain" <tino@wildenhain.de>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Hiding Port Number in Zope


> Thank you for that... I think the magic word I missed was Proxy...
>
> Other missing bit, is obviously i am not using Apache... can it be done=
 on
MSIE? Im going
> to dive into it now. I think my error in understanding was that Zserver
HAD to work in
> tandem with another.... whereas it does not? But does Zserver catch all=
 of
the
> browser/server variables by itself? This was what I thought the parent
server was for.
> Perhaps the docs could change to have dotted lines between Zserver and
Parent server (ie
> MSIE, Apache) to denote an optional connection?
>
> Thanks again kindly,
> Paz
>
> Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > what the hell are you doing? :-)
> > Obviously you cant have more then one server running on the same IP a=
nd
Port.
> > To suppres the port-parameter in the URL you have to use the standard
port
> > 80 as mentioned already.
> >
> > So either remove one of the servers you are running to get zserver
serving
> > on port 80  (with -w 80 )
> >
> > Or set up a proxy solution to cover both servers. Apache can do this =
for
example.
> > mod_proxy and mod_rewrite. There are docs how to do it on apache.org =
and
> > zope.org.
> >
> > If you have more then one IP-adress attached to your host, you can us=
e:
> >
> >  -w otherip:80  for your Zope and configure your other http-server yo=
u
use
> > for the second ip.
> >
> > HTH
> > Tino Wildenhain
> >
> > --On Freitag, 23. Februar 2001 11:12 +0100 Paul Zwarts
<paul.zwarts@oratrix.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi...
> > >
> > > I am using MSIE 5.0 from Win2kPro... What I dont understand about a=
ll
> > > this is how Zserver will sit alongside the webserver in tandem.
Because
> > > if the webserver runs on :80, then you cannot start zope on :80, bu=
t
> > > rather :8080. So how do you simply access
zope.somewhere.com/index_html
> > > when the zserver is on 8080....? I know you can redirect, but this =
is
> > > different. Whats more, because I hit MSIE server on 80, then pass i=
t
to
> > > zope, Zope does not get any valid REQUEST['HTTP_REFERER']
information.....
> > >
> > > What am I missing?
> > >
> > > {Paz
> > >
> > > Rodrigo Leme de Mello wrote:
> > >
> > >> You can specify the parameter -w 80 into your start script. As por=
t
80 is
> > >> the default to the browser=B4s
> > >> You won=B4t see the port number anymore.
> > >>
> > >> Rodrigo
> > >>
> > >> We are running Zope under an Apache server and we were wondering i=
f
there
> > >> was anyway to remove the port number from the web address.  For
example,
> > >> our web address looks as following: http://www.something.com:8080/=
its
and
> > >> we would like it to look like this http://www.something.com.its is
there
> > >> any way to do this?
> > >>
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