Please send all Zope related questions to a Zope related mailing list and not to me privately. Usually, I do not answer questions sent to me privately! I added "zope@zope.org". Christoph Berendes wrote at 2005-10-21 14:12 -0400:
I created a mount point, /default_site and a corresponding directory var/default_site. I build my plone site from scratch into default_site/site001, and all is good.
I then create a second mount point /kitchensbyartisan and a corresponding directory var/kitchensbyartisan. I copy var/default_site/Data.fs into var/kitchensbyartisan. Make the new_site mount point in the ZMI, restart a lot etc.
However, when I then navigate in the ZMI to kitchensbyartisan, it's empty and doesn't show site001 (or anything)
Do I need something fancier than the following in zope.conf, some reference to default_site?
<zodb_db kitchensbyartisan> mount-point /kitchensbyartisan <filestorage> path $INSTANCE/var/kitchensbyartisan/Data.fs </filestorage> </zodb_db>
When you use this simple mount-point syntax, then the mount path is coded into the generated storage and you cannot mount the storage under a different path. Actually, the mount-point syntax is much more complex than the form you use above. Among others, it supports mount-point mount-path:storage-path "mount-path" describes how you reach the mount point in the mounting application and "storage-path" how you find the mounted object from the storage root. An example would be: mount-point /F1/F2/XXX:/S1/XXX Note that the last component in both paths *MUST* be identical (otherwise, Zope's url construction no longer works with URL traversal). Usually, the "storage-path" will look like "/XXX" (where "XXX" is some id (without '/')). If "storage-path" is not given, it defaults to "mount-path" (this explains why you do not see anything in your storage). To summarize: * always explicitely give a storage path * use a storage path of the form "/<id>" * then you can mount the storage at different places *BUT* you must never mount with a different id (the mount point must have the same id as that of the mounted object). -- Dieter