Hi! I'm currently looking at the possibility of using zope for our new intranet. However, I unsurprisingly have a few questions with regards to its capabilities. Zope seems great as far as creating original content, and managing users. However, from what I've seen, using external tools seems trickier. For instance, we have a lot of tools which generate plain HTML pages (using everything from cron driven shell scripts to handwritten HTML). We obviously don't wish to reinvent all these tools (or give up the flexibility). How much would we lose switching to zope? Also, we are going to be switching from using Notes (hack, spit) to web based software covering everything from bugtracking (possibly Bugzilla) through calendering to project mangement. Since there doesn't seem to be a single product that does all this we are probably going to take a mix and match approach, using whatever we can find. What would be great is if all these various apps could be placed under zope's access management system. Would this be possible? Or would we have to duplicate access management for these external applications? Also, does anyone have experience of intergrating bugzilla and zope? So, that's my first salvo of questions. Any information would be much appreciated. Cheers Dave
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:42:59PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote:
Zope seems great as far as creating original content, and managing users. However, from what I've seen, using external tools seems trickier. For instance, we have a lot of tools which generate plain HTML pages (using everything from cron driven shell scripts to handwritten HTML). We obviously don't wish to reinvent all these tools (or give up the flexibility). How much would we lose switching to zope?
You don't have to give up any of it: stick Squid or Apache in front of Zope, and use URL rewriting to forward particular requests to either a traditional static web server, or to Zope. Examples using Apache are given at http://www.zope.org/Members/mwr/VHosts_With_Zope_Default -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu
Hi Dave, On Wednesday, August 8, 2001, at 08:42 AM, Dave Swegen wrote:
Hi! I'm currently looking at the possibility of using zope for our new intranet. However, I unsurprisingly have a few questions with regards to its capabilities.
That's only natural.
Zope seems great as far as creating original content, and managing users. However, from what I've seen, using external tools seems trickier. For instance, we have a lot of tools which generate plain HTML pages (using everything from cron driven shell scripts to handwritten HTML). We obviously don't wish to reinvent all these tools (or give up the flexibility). How much would we lose switching to zope?
This HTML ends up on the filesystem? http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS
Also, we are going to be switching from using Notes (hack, spit) to web based software covering everything from bugtracking (possibly Bugzilla) through calendering to project mangement. Since there doesn't seem to be a single product that does all this we are probably going to take a mix and match approach, using whatever we can find. What would be great is if all these various apps could be placed under zope's access management system. Would this be possible? Or would we have to duplicate access management for these external applications?
So long as you mix/match Zope products you'll probably be fine. Last time I checked Bugzilla got most of its configuration from flatfiles. There's a really cool Zope issue management product in CVS called "Tracker" that works with Zope users and is quite flexible. It's certainly worth a look.
Also, does anyone have experience of intergrating bugzilla and zope?
Nope. ;-)
So, that's my first salvo of questions. Any information would be much appreciated.
Cheers Dave
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