What I am doing is using the LocalFS product. This will let you point to a directory on your server and access it as if it were a Zope object. Then in Zope you can say <img src="images/banner.jpg> and it will use the images in the directory instead of the DB. Also I have recently implemented a site using ZServer and Apache. -----Original Message----- From: W O'Neil [mailto:bill@igic.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 11:29 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Images & Zope, Please help! Hello! New to zope and I'm looking for some practical advice on how to handle image heavy portions of a zope site. I have looked through the HOWTOs and read some comments about creating 'pseudo' images or zope pointers to static image urls and using those rather than storing all images in the DB. This seemed intriguing but I was looking for some practical experience/advice. Still I'm working on a moderate traffic site on a relatively low powered server (you take what you can get) and I'm concerned about always serving images out of the ZODB. As far as 'pseudo' images go, storing these pointer IMG tags rather than the images sacrifices some flexibility of setting ALT/WIDTH/HEIGHT tags AND then requires a server redirect as zope is currently set up as the apache webserver default, with anything coming to http://sitename/static/ going to the ws root. This seems somewhat clunky. I suppose I could 'hardcode' the static image tags in document header/footers but this still encounters the redirect. Anyone have any hard, real experience? Stories? Advice? Is this a valid concern or am I making too much of it? Should I just store the images in the DB? I have no problem storing banners and such in the DB its the site template graphics that I'm talking about here. Please let me know of your experiences of any articles/archives I may be missing on this subject. Thanks, bill bill@igic.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )