This is also an interesting solution when Zope is down. There could certainly be a watch script to detect a dead Zope and automatically switch to the simple server. In that case, redirection may be towards a "Server busy" or "Try to connect later" page, which could be accomplished by passing part of the 'message' variable as an argument to the script proposed by Dennis (e.g instead of hard-coding the <h1> and/or <h2> text in 'message'). Thanx for the idea! Paul Howell wrote:

Thanks Dennis. I dunno whether I'd call it simpler, but it would definitely be useful in some cases. It certainly is satisfying to take advantage of python's libraries to make a server-from-scratch when one is called for. =Pual

At 12:47 PM 12/9/2003, you wrote:

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There's another, simpler approach. Write a simple server and use it rather than Zope. YMMV depending upon your site configuration.

Something like this should do the job...

#!/usr/bin/env python2

import SimpleHTTPServer import SocketServer import StringIO <snip a lot> httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler ) print 'serving at port ', PORT httpd.serve_forever()

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