Site on a CD for Windows?
Hi We have developed a vertical market web solution for a reseller. We have also developed a demo web site for the reseller to show potential customers what the solution can do for them. After a few weeks of sales activities, it shows that a lot of their prospects do not yet have internet access. So when visiting them, the reseller can not demonstrate the solution. The sales people have asked us, if it would be possible to have the site on a CD. I can see two ways of doing this: 1.) Create a "static" version of the site that shows a set of pages illustrating what the solution could do. This would of course fail to demo the solution working. 2.) The more interesting thing would be to create a CD with a working version of Zope for Windows. As we're totally UNIX, I have absolutely no idea if this would be possible. I know Zope works Windows. What I don't know is how difficult is it to get it running. Can a normal Windows user (with no access to the Administrator's account) double-click a single .exe to get the sever running? (The sales people are not technical!) I envision a scenario like this: - Insert CD into PC - Run an "automatic installer" (Everything pre-configured, maybe with the exception as to where the files are installed to) - Open location of installation and double-click an .exe file - Open browser an point at 127.0.0.1:8080 (or something alike) My questions: Has somebody created something like this for Windows and could point me towards what I need to do? Is there free software to create the installer, ideally supporting an easy way to un-install as well? What requirements exist on Windows? (In other words, what can go wrong?) Cheers Marc
Hello Marc
2.) The more interesting thing would be to create a CD with a working version of Zope for Windows.
Look at http://www.zope.org/Members/jens/docs/zope_on_cdrom This works like a charm. The only bottleneck is the speed of the CD-ROM, <= 4 speed didn't work, but these types are from the last century ;-) Regards Dieter
--On Montag, 4. August 2003 9:39 Uhr +0100 Marc Burgauer <marc@sharedbase.com> wrote:
My questions: Has somebody created something like this for Windows and could point me towards what I need to do?
I know of at least one example. A company from Berlin produced a Zope-based CD application containing a list of drugs available/allowed in Germany ("Rote Liste"). If necessary I could give you a contact address.
Is there free software to create the installer, ideally supporting an easy way to un-install as well? What requirements exist on Windows? (In other words, what can go wrong?)
There are some...maybe google it. -aj
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