On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:42:59PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote:
Zope seems great as far as creating original content, and managing users. However, from what I've seen, using external tools seems trickier. For instance, we have a lot of tools which generate plain HTML pages (using everything from cron driven shell scripts to handwritten HTML). We obviously don't wish to reinvent all these tools (or give up the flexibility). How much would we lose switching to zope?
You don't have to give up any of it: stick Squid or Apache in front of Zope, and use URL rewriting to forward particular requests to either a traditional static web server, or to Zope. Examples using Apache are given at http://www.zope.org/Members/mwr/VHosts_With_Zope_Default -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu