I am using Zope on a Debian 2.2 i386 system to serve dynamic web pages for an organization. It works marvelously - another big win for free software.
However, some of my users are behind firewalls and cannot connect to the http server for Zope which, by default, runs on port 9673. Their firewalls appear to be configured to refuse connections to any port numbered greater than 1024. I tried modifying /etc/init.d/zope with ZOPEOPTS="-w 694" so it would be running on a port numbered less than 1024 but zope then fails on startup. I suspect that it has already switched the effective user to www-data by the time it tries to bind the port. I am also running apache on port 80 on this machine. From the documentation in /usr/share/doc/zope it appears that I could circumvent the port number problem by accessing zope from a webserver through pcgi or fastcgi. It appears that pcgi is simpler but involves more overhead because it forks a short-lived process for every connection. Is that a reasonable summary of the available options? Can anyone suggest other ways around the problem? Is there a Debian package for fastcgi? (I couldn't find one and I didn't see anything in the apache configuration that looked promising.) Please cc: me on any replies. I'm too far behind on too many e-mail lists and would likely miss a reply to the list only. -- Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/
