Henk Schets writes:
After reading all the info about zope, I am very impressed with the possibilities it can deliver. However, before I migrate our existing site, I need to be certain about certain topics : - how easy and reliably can I manage my virtual hosts (about 8 sites right now) ? Very important. You probably will need a Zope product called SiteAccess.
With "SiteAccess" alone, virtual hosting would have been a matter of about 1/2 an hour. With Apache (ProxyPass) and SiteAccess, it was a matter of about 1 day. This should now be a matter of parts of an hour, too, because a contributor wrote a HowTo, how to patch Apache to let it propagate HOST information.
- how stable is Zope regarding to Apache on Linux ?
Sometimes, images must be forced with a SHIFT-reload to be shown correctly. I do not know of other problems.
- we have a MySql database, is it easy to connect with Zope ?
Yes. Install MySQLDA. Then it is as easy to connect to it as it is to connect to any other relational database: add a connection object to a folder.
- can I access the Zope internal database with e.g. ODBC ?
No. But you can access it via HTTP, FTP, Webdav, XML-RPC and soon via XPath.
- can I use log analyzers to get some statistics about our site ?
Zope's logfiles are compatible with (e.g.) logs written by Apache
- any advice about migrating an existing site ?
Where do you come from? What special features do you use/need? What techniques do you use now? How many script do you have? Dieter