[Zope] the 'switchyard' of zope

seb bacon seb@jamkit.com
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:00:13 +0000


Dennis Gearon wrote:
> How does zope get all the requests vectored through it to do the content
> management?

If I understand you correctly....


> 1/ 'mod_rewrite'?

Yes, if you like.  Many people do this.

> 2/ a special module linked into apache?
> 3/ an *.exe that is put into the cgi-bin directory and somehow gets all
> requests?


you can use mod_pcgi to pass requests to a pcgi executable wrapper, or 
you can use apache proxypass to pass each request to the wrapper.

Finally, you can use none of the above and use Zope's built in web server.

seb