thank you. i understand now. the plone controller was the reason why i got confused: for example, this page has the screen shot of the "ports" UI of the controller (see section 7): http://python.developpez.com/cours/plone2/. the UI shows two http ports, one for plone, another for zope, which made me believe that there are two instances running. i still believe that the windows msi creates two zope instances but i need to verify it. but, thanks, my main question has been answered. ;-) konstantin 2005/9/8, Peter Bengtsson <peterbe@gmail.com>:
Zope isn't really a server. It's got some server elements but it's core is around the storage and retrieval of data in a controlled manner. Plone is just a big bunch of well written scripts and templates and images that is written inside Zope. Not too different from how pgMyAdmin is a packaged solution on top of PHP. The reason Plone refers to itself as a server is that some people (like people who download the msi installer) don't understand and don't need to understand the various layers of the end product. I think it's good what Plone has done but, as your email proves, sometimes people can get confused.
On 9/8/05, akonsu <akonsu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
i have been reading about zope and plone for a few days now, and i have a question that i could not find an answer to.
i understand zope is a server, that is, it is a process in OS. from what i could gather from the documentation, plone is a cms built on top of zope. why then when i install plone for windows from an msi, it appears that plone is also a server that runs alongside zope server just on a different http port? in addition, why the plone documentation keeps referring to plone as a server, and is using terms such as "start plone" and "stop plone"? so, is it a CMS that runs on top of zope or is it aan its own server? i am totally confused...
i hope this is the right list to post this kind of plone questions. if not, i apologise, and i would appreciate if you could redirect me...
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