-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Rawlins [mailto:penweb@olypen.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 8:08 AM To: support@digicool.com Subject: Install Zope on Web Host?
I can't seem to find on your site whether Zope can be installed on a web hosting acct. or must be installed directly on your own server. Thanks, Jeff Rawlins
My experience has been that if the hosting company is running Apache (many do) and if they have mod_rewrite installed (which is probably also pretty common), it is not *too* difficult to get Zope running in that environment. However, many hosting companies have policies against creating long running processes. Zope takes up a few MB of memory, which is considerably more than an instance of Apache... so many providers are not keen on that kind of thing. Before putting effort into trying to make Zope work in their environment, you'll probably want to ask them if they are willing to let you run a process that will hang out in memory all the time. CodeIt (one of the Zope hosting companies, http://www.codeit.com) will actually host Zope for you. You don't need to deal with building and configuring the package at all. Kevin