-----Original Message----- From: Richard R. Morgan [mailto:richard@northerncrown.com] Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 12:09 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Other web servers?

Hi all-

We are attempting to evaluate Zope and and similar products for our intranet. I have been digging through the zope website and can't find the answer to these....

#1: Does Zope work with any other webservers, beyond apache and the included python server? Like Netscape Enterprise Server?

We need a solution that works with NES.

Zope works with any webserver that 1) does CGI, and 2) passes the HTTP_AUTHORIZATION header to the CGI script. Niether NES or Apache do this without modification, Apache must use a rewrite rule, or the new mod_pcgi module, and NES must use an NSAPI plugin which is unsuported. The closed source nature of NES is very limiting. We do have customers who use the plugin, however.

#2: Do I understand correctly that **every** page is built and served dynamically? Is there a performance issue here, since static html serve the fastest? Much of our content will be static pages, but we need ease-of-use for publishing by non-web persons.

Every page is served 'dynamicly' in that it is pulled from the object database. However, pages do not need to be rendered if they do not contain any DTML scripting. When a document is added, the DTML is compiled for speed, it is not parsed and compiled on every access. Zope is much faster than traditional CGI solutions for "dynamicly" generating content, since the Zope process is running all the time, there is no fork and exec'ing of an interpreter overhead. Also, I have no benchmarks on traditional file serving vs. serving from the object database, I would venture a wager however that you will not notice it even under heavy loads. Zope 1.x has been proven to do well over a million hits a day on modest hardware, and Zope 2.0 will be able to perform much faster and smoother than that. Given also that it is written in Python and not (god forbid) Java means that it is very cross-platform and can run on every platform that python can run on and that you can compile C python extensions onto. Also, Zope works well in conjunction with a classic file based web server. For intense raw gotta get out as fast as posible static web page serving, you can very easily integrate Zope with a lightning fast server, like Zeus or a highly tuned Apache. BTW, does NOVALUG stand for Northern Virginia Linux Users Group? -Michel

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