What if you can use Zope on development server only?
Has anyone used Zope in a scenario where you don't have control of the production server? In other words, I'm in a non-profit organization that rents space from a web host. That web host doesn't have Zope installed and has no plans to install it. I *might* be able to put Zope on my own personal Linux server, which would really make that machine like a development server. Does anyone have any experience utilizing Zope in a scenario where the development and production servers are separate and the production server doesn't have Zope on it? I'd like to use Zope because our web site has reached the point where I really can't manage it myself (Ok, it reached that point over a year ago, but I'm finally frustrated enough to do something about it :). I'd really like to be able to give other people in my organization, especially many who aren't ultra web savvy tech-heads, the ability to author content so I'm no longer a bottleneck to the site expanding regularly. Zope looks like the best open source option to do this with. I also considered Cocoon (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/), but I know and love Python and Zope looks like it's both more mature and more well-established for this type of application. I also want to add that I *am* considering changing our web hosting provider, but due to other organizational changes in the non-profit it will have to wait at least six months (it's lower on my priority list than finding a replacement for our office manager, for example :). I guess I'm just curious if there's a way to use Zope in my current scenario, without having to change to a web hosting company that already has Zope installed. thanks for any help anyone can provide, Anthony ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Thompson" <artdruid@hotmail.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 3:33 PM Subject: [Zope] What if you can use Zope on development server only?
Has anyone used Zope in a scenario where you don't have control of
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production server? In other words, I'm in a non-profit organization that rents space from a web host. That web host doesn't have Zope installed and has no plans to install it. I *might* be able to put Zope on my own personal Linux server, which would really make that machine like a development server. Does anyone have any experience utilizing Zope in a scenario where the development and production servers are separate and the production server doesn't have Zope on it?
I originally tried running Zope at pair.com, where I didn't have root access to the box. I *did* have the ability to run CGIs and telnet in, however. You can get Zope running in such a scenario. And, if they're running Apache with mod_rewrite, you can even make Zope serve up your site's root. One note though: many ISPs don't want you to run a long-lived process. If that's their policy, then you'll run into trouble that way. As far as running separate development and production servers, I believe you can get something going. I think someone made a Product that will mirror your Zope database in separate files. You'll lose all of Zope's cool dynamic ability, but you'll at least be able to take advantage of the content management. Kevin
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