Your second question almost answers the first. You can use Zope either with or without Apache. One way to handle existing PHP sites is to put Apache in front of Zope. Then add configuration parameters to Apache to make it examine the URLs of requests. If the URL is for PHP pages, then handle the request in Apache/PHP. If the URL is for Zope pages, pass it over to Zope. That way you don't even have to think about making Zope do PHP.
 
As for setting "Zope up so it handles PHP tags", I'll let someone else answer that, 'cause I don't know for sure whether it can even be done.
 
-- Loren
----- Original Message -----
From: Lucas Young (c)
To: 'zope@zope.org'
Sent: July 13, 2000 03:44 PM
Subject: [Zope] Newbie: Zope a webserver? Serving PHP and Perl

Hi

Have just installed Zope under Win2K and it works fine - I see a lot of people mention using Apache to server Zope, but isnt Zope a webserver itself? I can browse to http://server:8080/ and view Zope pages, so why would I need Apache?

Also, How do I set Zope up so it handles PHP tags?

thanks in advance

Lucas Young