[zope-dev] zope/apache - external product writing to a file system ?

[Dr. Ross Lazarus]

We're running zope 1.10.2 under apache.

Briefly, my question is - What's the easiest way to convince apache/zope
to allow an external method to actually write some files somewhere - do
I only need to ask my friendly (!) sysadmin to adjust some apache
permissions or is there more to this ?

Details - In order to get a static html representation of a zope folder
and subfolder objects, I thought I'd write myself an external method
which walks the folder structure and tries to write the dtml stuff to
the file system as a static mirror of the dynamic zope site. 

Problem. Everything seems to work fine except that all of the file
writes fail - IOError 13 - permission denied.

I thought I'd be sneaky and tried using the zope/var directory assuming
that apache was stopping zope from writing to any arbitrary directory.
No joy - zope too smart to allow me to do that.


I'll release it as a contributed product if I can get this sorted out.
(Yes, wget already does this but we've had some interesting problems...)
  
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Dr Ross Lazarus
Associate Professor and Sub-Dean for Information Technology
Faculty of Medicine, A27, R126a, University of Sydney,
Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
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