[Zope-Coders] more babbling, this time about site roots

[Chris McDonough]

Matt Behrens wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:24:00AM -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
> 
>>SiteRoots are evil and dangerous,
> 
> 
> I'd appreciate it if someone could explain to me why this is the case.

Configured inappropriately, people are "locked out" of their site, and 
the only way their can get back in is to either 1) FTP and in delete the 
site root or 2) visit the site with _SUPPRESS_SITEROOT in the URL or 3) 
Use the SUPPRESS_SITEROOT environment variable.  None of these options 
is very intuitive and it's easy for newbies to hose themselves.

VHM's do all that site roots do and do not have this problem.

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Chris McDonough                    Zope Corporation
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