I am currently evaluating Zope for our company intranet (which is currently running IIS on NT, Apache on Linux, Perl CGI on both, and MySQL on Linux. I am pretty impressed with how easily things work in Zope (once you figure it out). There is so much dynamic content on it that I think Zope will be perfect. I have a couple of questions that I haven't started to tackle yet. Why would I use Apache with Zope when it has its own HTTP server and seems to run okay (even right along side Apache)? Can I check the existance of external files from within Zope? I have a data base of CAD files. If they exist on a server I create a link to them, if they don't I just list them. Can I import data from a text file? I am currently using Perl to suck data from a text file that changes every day and throw it into MySQL. Can I continue to run this along side of Zope? Should work, right? How can I transfer my Zope stuff (Object database is it?) to another machine once I decide to impliment it on a real server? I guess I mean what files do I need and is there anything that will cause me grief? (I read the postings about the person who wants to copy one website to many servers. It looks like a non-trivial problem.) Thanks, Phil. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Aylesworth Information Systems Manager phila@regalint.com PGP public key: http://www.regalint.com/PGPkeys/phila.html
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Philip Aylesworth wrote:
Why would I use Apache with Zope when it has its own HTTP server and seems to run okay (even right along side Apache)?
The strongest argument in favor of apache I have read on this list was the use of secure layers and such, which apache already supports. Personally I have been using medusa (ZServer) for a long time and it is rock stable and I believe quite faster that apache (I might be wrong here. It can be MUCH faster that apache)
Can I check the existance of external files from within Zope? I have a data base of CAD files. If they exist on a server I create a link to them, if they don't I just list them.
It should not be too difficult with an external method.
How can I transfer my Zope stuff (Object database is it?) to another machine once I decide to impliment it on a real server? I guess I mean what files do I need and is there anything that will cause me grief? (I read the postings about the person who wants to copy one website to many servers. It looks like a non-trivial problem.)
The difficulty in this situatiation is not the tranfer of content from one server to another (which in Zope IS trivial) but actually automating the process of synchronizing all the object databases over many servers. This problem is not particular to Zope. I think it falls outside Zope's domain. If it was I can assure you Jim would have come up with a solution. Anyway all you need to do is copy the object database from one server to the other. This is what I do and it works fine. Of course if you install some new products or external methods on one server make sure you install them on the other too. Actually everything could be stored in the object database but I think the digigyus in their wisdom chose not to, for security reasons. Pavlos
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