[Zope] building/exporting site and server question

[David Eleuterius]

I am relatively new to Zope, and I am working on a personal project at home 
on my Win98 box. I am just now getting the "zen" of Zope as everyone refers 
to it, and am building a true functional application.

So now that I am getting comfortable with Zope, here is my question. I am 
wondering if I can build my site/application on my Win98 box at home, 
export it out and then import it into another Zope installation running on 
another operating system (either BSDI or Linux). I am thinking I will have 
to buy my own server so that I can let Zope run as the server itself -- our 
servers up here all run Apache and I doubt our systems administrator up 
here would want to take the time and effort required to get that running 
properly (plus those are production servers, not really for employee 
projects!).

Is it possible and/or recommended to build a site/application on one 
installation and import it into another? Or should I just go ahead and by a 
box, put Linux on it, and proceed to build it on that platform? My concern 
is spending a lot of time building out the site on my home box and then 
finding a show-stopping hitch in the migration to another 
platform/installation.

Anyone who has had any experience with migrating Zope applications to other 
platforms/installation please reply so that I can make an informed decision 
as to how to proceed.

And also is there any reason to use Apache instead of letting Zope run as 
the server itself -- this will be on my own server so I doubt there will be 
much else on the box then my personal project and my home site (two virtual 
domains).

Thanks in advance.

DE
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David Eleuterius | Design & Development
Bowman Internet Systems
318.213.8780 x3192
http://www.bowmansystems.com/
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