On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 21:15, Damian Maitland wrote:

Hello im interested in Zope but i need to know if it can do what i need it to do. I would like to build a community portal for my area, a portal similar to http://www.gopbi.com.

Also i would like ot know if it can be installed on a Cobalt Raq 4R server.

Thanks in advvance. Damie

Zope is great for building community portals. Be sure to look into Plone too. Zope/Plone *can* be installed on a Raq, but only from source and not without some pain. To make a long story short, you need to be willing to break and/or stop using the marvelous web management UI that constitutes the Raq's most significant selling point. There are a couple howtos for Raq usage on the *old* Zope site that haven't yet gotten migrated forward to the new site: http://old.zope.org/Members/dylanr/cobalt_raq http://old.zope.org/Members/andy/raqHosting The first one is old... it covers Zope 2.5.1 and aspects of it may not apply to 2.6.1 or later, particularly if you use an instance home setup. I haven't gotten around to updating it... sorry. The second one claims to have a recipe that doesn't break the management ui, but I'm not sure that's going to work... IIRC, you'll need to stop using the UI to add virtual hosts in order to keep from overwriting your manual changes. You can still use it for the mail and admin stuff. The bottom line is that the Raq is not, in my experience, a great solution for Zope (nor really for much of anything else). It's poorly maintained and highly inflexible. RPM software installation is pretty thoroughly hosed so you have to either use Sun's official patches/packages or hand-roll everything. If you haven't already paid for the Raq, I'd look into "virtual" colo (UML based) instead of using a Raq. Or if you just need Zope hosting, ask around... there are several people here who can help with that. HTH, Dylan