[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] Converting a web site

[Lennart Regebro]

John Poltorak wrote:
> I woulde be interested in converting an existing web site with numerous 
> fairly static pages into one managed by Zope.
> 
> How would I go about doing this?
> 
> It seems pretty tedious having to upload each file individually, which is 
> the only way I have found of doing it so far.


In all cases but one where I have been involved in converting one site 
to a Zope managed site, the people have scrapped the old site 
completely, and made a new one from scratch, with a new, improved 
structure and layout.

It involves a lot of copy/pasting text from the old site, sure, but the 
end resul is better.

If you are just to have a bunch of static files, you can just as well 
just use Apache anyhow. :)

And if you don't, there are products that let you store the files on the 
  harddisk, where they are now, accessing them through Zope, but not 
needing to import them. LocalFS is the most common one, I think.