Configuring your web server

by Martin Aspeli — last modified Dec 30, 2008 03:05 PM
With Zope and Plone set up, you need to set up Apache or IIS so that the public site and the private site are on separate URL
Apache If you are using Linux or Mac OS X, you'll probably run Apache 2. In this case, you need to use 'mod_rewrite' and RewriteRules to configure the two URLs. More details can be found in "the Zope and Apache tutorial":/documentation/tutorial/plone-apache. Presuming your server is running on the IP address 10.10.10.10 and Zope runs on port 8080, the two domain names 'public.mysite.net' and 'admin.mysite.net' can be set up as this:: NameVirtualHost 10.10.10.10:80 ServerName public.mysite.net RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/public.mysite.net:80/Plone/public_website/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P] ServerName admin.mysite.net RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://localhost:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/admin.mysite.net:80/Plone/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P] Of course, you will also need to configure your DNS server so that 'public.mysite.net' and 'admin.mysite.net' point to your IP address. IIS on Windows If you are on Windows, you can configure IIS virtual hosts similarly. The following screenshot illustrates the settings: "IIS Virtual Host configuration":img:iis_vhost_conf.jpg Enfold Enterprise Proxy on Windows Finally, if you use Enfold Enterprise Proxy, this would go in your 'eep.ini':: [host-admin] lh_root = / vh_server = localhost vh_port = 8080 vh_root = /Plone vh_protocol = http host_headers = admin.mysite.net [host-retail] lh_root = / vh_server = localhost vh_port = 8080 vh_root = /Plone/public_website vh_protocol = http host_headers = www.mysite.net