[Absolute beginner's question...] I'm thinking to use Zope for an Internet site I have to develop for an internal client. They will just receive a PC Box from me and will know nothing about the technology in it. I wonder if I can safely allow them to drop HTML documents inside Zope. This would allow to publish their own simple HTML documents without worring about DTML and the like (I do not think they are interested in developing their own DTML-enabled sites...). Is it Zope able to handle plain HTML+CSS+JavaScript documents, without having to use any DTML file? Can the user just drop a HTML document in a server directory and have this document published on the intranet? How can I determine the directory they can use? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alessandro Bottoni (Alessandro.Bottoni@Think3.com) Web Programmer @ Think3 inc. (www.think3.com) I do not speak for think3 and they return the favour
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Alessandro Bottoni wrote:
Can the user just drop a HTML document in a server directory and have this document published on the intranet? How can I determine the directory they can use?
Not exactly, but close enough. A DTML Document could certainly contain just HTML code and no DTML, and Zope would happily return it and the client would render it just as if (say) Apache had returned it. I presume you could use the ftp server built in to Zserver to upload the documents to whatever folders you had given them permission on. But keep in mind that all the Zope data is stored in the ZODB (a single file in the unix filesystem) not as seperate files in that filesystem, so any update transactions need to go through Zserver somehow or another in order to update the content. You might want to consider teaching them the (pretty easy) management interface, though, as they could use that to upload files directly from their PC desktops using just their web browser. Who knows, they might even decide they want to start taking advantage of Zope's content management features, and actually start learning DTML <grin>. --RDM
Alessandro Bottoni wrote:
Is it Zope able to handle plain HTML+CSS+JavaScript documents, without having to use any DTML file?
Sure. Although with a little work you can have it automatically get your intranet's headers and footers, for example. But just plunking it in works just fine.
Can the user just drop a HTML document in a server directory and have this document published on the intranet? How can I determine the directory they can use?
Give them a user that only has permission to access a certain folder. Then set up ftp for them and they'll never know it's Zope. -- Itamar S.T. itamars@ibm.net
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