Dapo, Your Zope website is probably best served from Zope, or using Zope behind to Apache. If it has any dynamic features they would not translate to a static site at all.. But it sounds as if that may not be the case, and also that you need to host your files on your hosting provider..perhaps. If your site is spider-friendly, (the URLs don't have any "?"s i.e. 'query strings' in them, or require forms or Javascript to access any of the content.) you may be able to use a program like Gnu wget to spider your dynamic site, writing (actually, 'mirroring') the content to your web directory hierarchy as static HTML files. Then they would be served by your ISPs web server like any other static content. But you lose a lot in terms of what you can do.. a LOT. You can install wget in your ISP shell account and use a cron job to launch it, fetching your content from your home Zope box at regular intervals.. Your home box would then become your 'staging server' as it is called.. You could also install wget or a similar program on your home box and use FTP to put the files into your ISPs web directory as you would any other HTML files.. Using this mirroring hack is a viable option when you are just using Zope's templating features, etc. to simplify the job of HTML coding of a large site and clearly don't need any kind of on-the-fly content negotiation or personalization.. There are even some advantages.. speed being the biggest one. On a given box, serving static content using Apache is almost always going to be faster than serving dynamic pages by any method.. (But a good Squid-based caching setup can come very close.) Also, by doing what I describe you will avoid the need to run your own server 24/7..with the always-on Internet connection, static IP, etc.. HTH, Chris Beaumont
I am getting the hang of Zope and have just built (75%) a personal test website. Now to test it I want to load it to my ISP (linux, php, perl etc)where I have 100mb of space. I cannot find any How-to or FAQ to show me how. The Tutorial and the 'Book' do not go into it. Can someone point me in the right direction. Thanks
Dapo