At 19:33 15/08/99 , Oliver Andrich wrote:
Hi,
I am the CTO of an ISP and after doing some Zope projects (only smaller inhouse things) I like to setup Zope as a service for our customers, cause we receive requests for Zope, cause some of the companies we cooperate with already use Python as the primary scripting language. And they want Zope for their customers.
What do I have to do so I have one central installation of Zope and something like user installations for our customers. Or do we need Zope for each and every customer? I have looked on the Zope web page, but either I am to dumb or no information is available.
Zope can be installed as a central software package, with different instance directories for each customer. It knows about a SOFTWARE_HOME and a INSTANCE_HOME, where Products can reside in both SOFTWARE_HOME/lib/python/Products and in INSTANCE_HOME/Products. I believe this is also the case with Extensions (like External Methods and Plugable Brains). The instance's var directory resides in, of course, INSTANCE_HOME/var. I have never set up such a directory structure however. But I do know that DC will give any assistance to an ISP that wants to set up Zope as a service. I suggest you email info@digicool.com and ask them to help you. They also will list your ISP on the hosting page of Zope.org if you wish. -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------