----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Booz" <ryanbooz@alumni.psu.edu> To: "Comp Ed List" <seul-edu@seul.org> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 3:03 PM Subject: Zope Question

Hey gang,

I'm posting this question here because I know a while back some people had mentioned they were using Zope. I'm trying to start using it, getting used to the DTML and all the other stuff. I can get it running with my Apache server, and that's all well and good. But I have these two questions which I can't seem to find answers to in current Zope documents and help.

1. How do I get the server process to run as a daemon? I've tried the one script for an rc process I found on a site, but my server just hangs and I never get a command prompt back. All other processes I've ever run at startup are either designed to be daemons, or have a specific switch to add to the program name.

Removing the -D (debug) switch from the z2 line in start.py will cause Zope to release control of the terminal from which it was started.

2. OK, this is kind of two part. First, where does Zope actually store all of the directories and files you create for a site. If I have a fake directory as the "trigger" for the persistent CGI process, than where does it actually store this pages I'm creating? As an example, following the install instructions that comes with Zope, I've set Apache to send every request for /zope to the FastCGI process running in the background. That directory does not exist in my htdocs directory. Where is this stuff going?

In the "ZODB" (Zope Object Database). See http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/gainenlightenment for some nuggets. This is a tough one to wrap your head around when you first get started.

Two, can I get Zope to answer the general requests for a site (like www.bms.school my internal server and fake domain.) Rather than having to specify a directory, it would just send all requests to Zope. But to take that one step further, if I had user accounts set up with the /~username convention, would this stuff be able to pass through Zope and actually go to those directories? I don't think I'm making this question clear, but I don't know how else to state it right now.

See the SiteAccess product on Zope.org