Has anyone else been attempting to use ZDiscussions in conjunction with SiteAccess? Here is the problem I am having: Problem Description: -------------------- When I add discussion item from Virtual Hosted URLs the discussion item adds to discussion but ZDiscussions.children() method returns None for those items. This is not the case for items added via non VirtualHosted URLs, same discussion just different access path. When I add ZDiscussion Items via VirtualHost the items appear to be there in the /manage screens but yet the children function shows None for each of these thus the ZDiscussion index_html is all messed up. Upon further investigation the culprit appears to be the ablolute_url function in conjunction with SiteAccess and ZCatalog. The entries in ZCatalog show: /feedback/1999-12-16/film.html for the "broken" entries done via VirtualHost /city/feedback/1999-12-16/film.html for the functional entries Upon still fruther investigation this problems also accures in the ZCache product when used under SiteAccess. Does anyone have any ideas? I really am trying to make this work. -- ------------------------------- tonyr@ep.newtimes.com Director of Web Technology Newtimes Inc. -------------------------------
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Upon further investigation the culprit appears to be the ablolute_url function in conjunction with SiteAccess and ZCatalog. The entries in ZCatalog show: /feedback/1999-12-16/film.html for the "broken" entries done via VirtualHost /city/feedback/1999-12-16/film.html for the functional entries
Upon still fruther investigation this problems also accures in the ZCache product when used under SiteAccess.
Urgh. This is messy, because it shows a conflict between two distinct (but easily confused) uses of absolute_url. The first is in producing shortest-path URLs for client consumption (as with Images). In this case, you want virtually-hosted sites to produce the shortened URL, and depend on the virtual hosting to add '/city' back in when the URL is requested. The second is in producing internal object-traversal paths, and should really be given its own function (perhaps called absolute_path). In this case, virtual hosting should have *no* effect. ZCatalog and ZCache both use absolute_url in this way. Unfortunately, fixing this will require surgery on each Product which uses absolute_url improperly (IMNSHO). So, two things need to be done: 1. An absolute_path function needs to be added to standard Items. 2. Product authors need to be encouraged to check their Products for Virtual Hosting Compliance, i.e., using the new function where appropriate. Gloom, Evan @ 4-am
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