[Zope-Annce] Virtual Host Folder beta 0.2.0
Gary Poster
garyposter@earthlink.net
Tue, 1 Jan 2002 19:26:11 -0800
The VirtualHostFolder product, based on some nuts and bolts of the
SiteAccess
Virtual Host Monster by Evan Simpson and modified by iMeme, provides tools
for
modifying the traversal of Zope in such a way as to provide for multi-site
hosting in Zope.
* 0.2.0: A major, major revision, incorporating several incremental
developmental stages. 0.2.0 is probably less stable and more buggy than
0.1.1. Design-wise, however, this is much nearer to final release.
* Added the ability to have aliases by host, with very full-featured
set-up options.
* better-thought-out breadcrumbs-friendly API to VHF
* Added an Evaluate tab (and changed the install routine) so that
you
can install the VHF while VHM is already in use (IMEME-IMPROVED
VERSION
OF VHM ONLY!! the evaluate tab will actually still work just fine
with
the older version, but your Apache set-up will be different). In
this
situation, the VHF is off on installation. You can then use the
Evaluate tab to switch back and forth between the VHF and the iMeme-
improved VHM safely (in my own testing, at least).
* Testing tab now allows full URLs, including paths, so you can see
how the path will be changed on traversal (including aliases), and
also see (some of) what the new breadcrumbs-friendly API will spit
back at you.
* Settled down on thorough system of component interfaces for all
pertinent classes (in both the Fakers and the VHF modules)
* Did security and packaging in a more standard way
* Factored out the lightweight fake folder functionality used by the
VHF into a Fakers product
* Tree tag support for FakeFolders means that sub-elements of the
VHF
are accessible through the tree on the left side of the management
interface.