On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:37:22AM -0700, ERIC Lawson - x52010 wrote:
The first and most pressing question: suppose I implement the site using Zope, particularly page templates and DTML. Supposing I need to retreat, then, how can I return to my directory-and-file based site? That is, Zope stores the site as objects in a database; how can I write those objects back to files and directories? Is there an established mechanism for this? Granted, I can whip up some scripts to replace, e.g., <dtml-var standard_html_header> with the standard header, in all files, but.... I'm asking if there is some way to use Zope or a utility to write out the entire site _as it would be served to a visitor_, that is, with all DTML and page template logic replaced.
use wget to suck your website served by Zope to a bunch of static html files. "man wget" is your friend
The second, less pressing but still vital question: how can Zope be used in such a way as to preserve the existing URL targets? That is, suppose the current URI is http://www.somesite.com/Documents/reflist/pubCategs/Categories.html, and that URI has been bookmarked by visitors: how, other than a redirection, can that URI be preserved in zope-logic?
I'm not sure I udnerstand your question, but I'd probably answer : no problem : Just tell Zope to serve www.somesite.com (e.g. with a SiteRoot object) hth. Jerome Alet