The current issue of "Zope Guru of the Week" has closed: =================================================================== Issue #2 -- How to Import a Static Web Site into Zope =================================================================== Status: Closed Zen Level: Novice (1/8) Keywords: Management Interface Submitted by: ithomas christmas@mail.sd70.bc.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------- How can one most easily (with the least typing) import an existing static website into Zope? The site contains: * image files * multiple HTML/JavaScript files including internal and external links After doing it by hand for a small site I decided there had to be better way. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Reviewed by: Tres Seaver tseaver@palladion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary I'm going to close this one out without a "perfect" answer. * K.S. Lee's "highly compressed" reply is essentially correct: the load_site.py script does a decent job of loading "static" content into a Zope server *from the local hard drive*. * The original question specifically called out issues with images and with JavaScript and external/internal links. Pam Crosby reports loading images successfully with load_site; Pam also notes difficulty with loading "compressed" files. Full points to both of them. Issues Unresolved * load_site uses a very limited heuristic to detect the type of the file being loaded: it uses the file extension to look up a handler function: - 'foo.jpg' loads as an image, as does 'foo.gif' - 'foo.jpeg' loads as a File object (ouch!) - 'foo.dtml' loads as a DTML Document - 'foo.html' gets loaded as a DTML Document with its headers/footers stripped, id and title properties created from the headers, and gets a text property added, 'loadsite-head', containing the original headers; Probably the simplest way to address to add command line parameters to load_site to allow the user to override the heuristic, something like:: python load_site -u zopemeister:zpass --image foo.jpeg --file bar.zip * I had difficulties trying to load images, but they could be due to pilot error and / or Netscape's stupid image caching. * load_site opens all files without passing the "mode" parameter, which could be gnarly on non-Unix platforms with binary files (this might explain my difficulties loading images, and Pam's with compressed files). -------------------------------------------------------------------