[Zope] New to Zope help needed

[Chris McDonough]

Lee Catlett wrote:
> 
> Hi to all those who have been there and done that,
>     First of all, I haven't and would like to ask a few questions to
> those who are out there in stellar lands if I could.  I've basically
> read the docs and played with the demo somewhat although not exactly
> clear and have some really basic questions. Like::
>     1. Does the first folder you make, represent your main page??  Told
> you these were simplistic!!

The index_html document in the root folder is your "main page".  You
create other "pages" most of the time by creating DTML documents or DTML
methods in folders.

>     2. If that is the case, then all folders under the main must be
> subpages of the site, Right?

Nope.  :-)

>     4.  How to you link the  different folders(pages) together?
> Hysterical by now I bet!!

Like in normal HTML.  <a href="/myfolder/mydocument">mydocument</a>

where myfolder is a folder off the root folder and mydocument is a DTML
document or DTML method within myfolder.  There are many other ways as
well.

>     3.  How do you get apache to look at zope for it's first index.html
> page when it gets it's first page from the ../httpd/html directory??
> Also new to Linux!!

Wow, couldn't you have picked a bigger stone to roll?  :-)  You'll
probably want to read
http://www.zope.org/Members/nemeth/howtos/zopeandapacherh61 to get an
understanding of what you need to do to hook up Zope and Apache.  There
is also a precompiled Apache for Zope (ZAP).  Search for "ZAP" on
Zope.org.

>     4.  Is there an already put together site somewhere that would show
> me all this info without having to bug anyone and I could just look and
> maybe figure this all out for myself??

You can view most of the pages on Zope.org by clicking on the "view DTML
source" at the bottom of the page.  The docs are on Zope.org too. 
Searching the mailing lists archives for things you want to do is
generally helpful too.  

> 
>     Wouldn't believe I do this in the NT world with ease would you!
> This is just such a different twist for me it's a little confusing
> (really a lot).  Anyway if I could get a response from anyone I'd
> probably be elated after this episode, and thanks
> Regards,
> Lee
> 

Good luck!

-- 
Chris McDonough
Digital Creations, Inc.
Zope - http://www.zope.org