Hi I'm looking to "help" my ISP (aletia.com) to add Zope to its list of services. I'm not very clued up on Zope at all, so I'd apreciate some advice on how best to do it. On each server (RH 7.2) they host several dozen users - generally all www stuff happens through Apache VirtualHost entries - i.e. I have a ~/public_html directory and I can put .htaccess files in there to specify how I want my pages to work. What is the best way to install Zope? I can think of 2 possibilities: 1. Each user can have their own Zope installation (it's not that big and they can do what they like with it). Then I guess as long as they install mod_fastcgi on apache, and make Zope run FastCGI-aware, you've got a decent system. The issues I have with this are: - how would you get the Zope server started when they reboot the machines (which does happen now and again) - can Zope and Apache get along if the users don't have access to httpd.conf, but only to .htaccess files under their ~/public_html? 2. There's one big Zope installation, and the ISP sets up an account for each user who's interested, with a virtual domain and gives them the Manager role for everything under that domain. I would appreciate advice/ideas. Some issues could include: - best way of providing backups - logging issues - installing Zope products Thanks in advance, Felix.
Felix Ulrich-Oltean writes:
I'm looking to "help" my ISP (aletia.com) to add Zope to its list of services. I'm not very clued up on Zope at all, so I'd apreciate some advice on how best to do it. If your ISP is ready to give you a personal Zope installation, then he just installs Zope as described in the installation instructions, maybe using the INSTANCE_HOME approach described on Zope.org.
He can give you ssh/ftp access to Zope's "Products" folder (inside INSTANCE_HOME), such that you can install new products. You should have "Manager" priviledges such that you can restart Zope after you uploaded new products. He would define a virtual host directing requests to your Zope. Lots of documents about this on Zope.org (see Apache and Zope, VHM, Virtual Host Monster). Dieter
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