I've been poking around in the 2.0.0a4 sources to allow subsiting (Folder in existing Zope + Domainname == Subsite ;) ), and I've developed some questions, that probably not many people will be able to answer:

-) Is there anywhere documentation about Acquisition? How exactly is it intended to be used, etc. I've been reading the source code, so I think I'm breaking the Acquisition chain the right way at the subsite level, but thinking and knowing are different words. ;)

Check out: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Reference/Acquisition

-) I've actually done the ZPublisher subsite patch twice, and in both cases (dirty and the newer almost clean version), I get permission denied problems for my subsite folder. Now, after looking at the Application object and the Subfolder object, I'm getting the impression that a Folder cannot be the toplevel folder of a Zope database, right?

Andreas

Right - the top level object is actually an "Application" object, which is mostly like a Folder but contains some other necessary things. That is probably also the root of your authentication problems - note also that intentionally breaking the acquisition chain will also likely break security, which is pretty intimately tied to Acquisition. Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com