[Zope-CMF] using APE to offload a portion of an intranet from the ZODB

[Larry Prikockis]

Here's the deal:     I've gotten the green light to start developing an
intranet for our organization using Zope/CMF/Plone (yeah!). One remaining
concern my manager has is that various documents (typically MS Office)
stored on the intranet are not locked into some python/zope-specific world.
Simply having WebDAV access to them isn't quite enough to allay his fears-
and in any case, I don't want people loading 30MB PowerPoints into the ZODB
anyway.

So.... I'm very excited about the possibility of storing a portion of the
intranet (e.g., a folder called 'docs') on the filesystem, while the rest of
the system lives normally in the ZODB.

My question is-- if my CMF/Plone portal exists at /intranet, can I mount an
APE-based file-system storage at /intranet/docs ???

It's probably just because it's Monday morning, but I can't seem to grasp
how to mount an APE/DBTab storage at some place other than the Zope root-- 
and from reading the examples in the supplied config file, it sounds like I
might not want to?

Can someone set me straight on this?

thanks much!

Larry


-- 
+
Larry J. Prikockis
Web Applications Specialist
NatureServe
aoxomoxoa
703-908-1833 / larry_prikockis@abi.org / www.abi.org
+
All parts should go together without forcing.  You must remember that the
parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you.  Therefore, if you
can't get them together again, there must be a reason.  By all means, do not
use a hammer.
  -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925