hi, On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 07:45, Day Irmiter wrote:
I'm gradually becoming familiar with Zope and increasingly astounded. It's capabilities are breathtaking! One important thing I do not yet understand is the relation of Zope's internal folder and file structure to that of the system on which it resides and to Web URLs.
For example, to what does http://localhost:8080/ correspond on the hard drive? \Zope\bin?
ZOPE stores all data in a database... called the ZopeObjectDataBase [ZODB]. What you see in the Zope Management Interface [ZMI] is a view on this object-oriented database. You should drop the idea of files & folders [as used for traditional web-servers] and think of objects with methods & properties stored in a Database. This gives you the power to use Zope not only as a Web-Server, but as an Operating-System for the Internet... Zope is really the Linux for the Internet...;-)
Perhaps related to this is the question of how I get outside the Zope management interface - i.e., if I have a small application built, how do I access it directly from a blank browser, rather than through the management interface?
Simply call your "object" [or document / folder] simply via the Url: http://localhost:8080/yourTestFolder/IdOfYourDocument create a folder with an id=test, enter it, create a DTML Document with id=hello, edit it and then call: http://localhost:8080/test/hello keep zoped, maik -- Maik Jablonski Deutsche Zope User Group www.zfl.uni-bielefeld.de www.dzug.org