[Zope] fsimport, external user folder

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

Michael Arndt wrote:

> and last Question: Does someone know, what is the design reason to
> import all Data
> in the Zope Database and not maintaining pointers to data in any case ?

The reason is that Zope is meant for serving out persistent Objects, with
properties and methods and all, not merely static pages or images.

Check out LocalFS - it does exactly what you want, serves pages off the
harddisk.  But if it's just plain files, you might as well just use Apache
for static pages, and only use Zope for what it's good at - dynamic stuff. 
You can mix static and dynamic content using mod_rewrite - there's most
likely a Howto on www.zope.org.

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Itamar S.T.  itamars@ibm.net