[Zope] Running external applications

[Howard Clinton Shaw III]

On Tue, 25 May 1999, Graham Chiu wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905251139360.16514-100000@gaaros.msrc.sunysb.
> edu>, Pavlos Christoforou <pavlos@gaaros.msrc.sunysb.edu> writes
> >> > You can run any application in this way. (in Wndows os.system("start 
> >this_program.exe") ).
> >> 
> >> Ouch. Look at os.popen(). It opens a pipe to a given command, which acts just 
> >like a file. Read, write, and be happy.
> >> 
> >
> >In Zope 1.10.2, being single threaded, an external method has the
> >potential to block the whole Zope server. Make sure that the external
> >method returns its results fast enough.
> 
> Looks my best option is to run Zserver for Zope stuff, and another
> webserver for my php3, perl and .exe stuff.  Presumably two web servers
> on different ports on the same PC can coexist peacefully.

Quite possibly. Note, you can run ZServer as a PCGI app under another webserver.
Personally I am running Zope under ZAP with another apache running on a different port.
Works fine.
 
> -------
> Regards,        Graham Chiu
> gchiu<at>compkarori.co.nz
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