[Zope] Re> another newbie rewrite problem

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Dan Donaldson wrote:
> I got it working! Thanks for the prompt replies. I have to say that while the documentation for Zope can be -er - challenging, the quick response from the community is great to see.
> 
> The problem was not having the proxy modules loaded. It would appear that Apache 2 has a more elaborate scheme for proxy modules, and the tutorial at 
> 

Dan, one word of caution about apache2. I don't know about redhat, but 
Suse (8.1) comes with apache 2.0.40 (IIRC). This version is not 
production quality, as far as some feature are concerned that are quite 
typical to be used with zope. (Disk based) caching and mod_proxy in 
virtual hosts didn't work for me, and I can confirm this is indeed a bug 
(known to the apache developers).
The problem was that this wasn't documentend prominently, and the bug 
just caused apache to never deliver pages from the cache, while it still 
created files in the cache dir. I found this out only because I was 
doing some benchmarks.

So, if you don't need apache2 features, I'd consider using apache 1.

cheers,
oliver