[Zope] Uploading a Zope site

[Andy McKay]

There have been many patches including one for SSL transfer I have yet to
integrate.

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: <sean.upton@uniontrib.com>
To: <hancock@earthlink.net>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:02 PM
Subject: RE: [Zope] Uploading a Zope site


> Check out:
>
> http://www.zope.org/Members/andym/ZSyncer
>
> Haven't used it, but it looks to be the best option for a 'staging'
content
> production model.  Works via XML-RPC, and I would do this over HTTPS/SSL
> because of plain-text passwords, but that's because I am paranoid about
> plain-text passwords for management access; I'm not sure what Imeme
provides
> in the SSL regard, but I'm guessing that they can likely answer that
> question for you.
>
> Sean
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Hancock [mailto:hancock@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 10:29 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Uploading a Zope site
>
>
> I've been managing static HTML sites for a long time,
> although none of them have been terribly ambitious,
> but I'm fairly new with Zope.
>
> My usual practice (which I think is pretty common and
> a good idea anyway), is to work on a website stored on
> a local server. Then, when the time comes to commit the
> changes, I upload the site.
>
> I'm attempting the same type of procedure with Zope:
> I have a local copy which I develop on, and I periodically
> try to upload content to a Zope account at my ISP (Imeme).
>
> The problem I'm running into, is that I now have some
> dynamically-created content on the site, which I don't
> want to lose.  As designed, a "clobber" approach (i.e.
> upload over the existing site, replacing any files
> which have the same name), would work fine (the automatically
> generated files have predictable names and locations).
> But there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this (well,
> you wouldn't *want* it to be too easy).
>
> My present procedure is pretty complicated -- I do an
> export locally, and then an import at the ISP. But
> I also have to export parts of the ISP version in order
> to incorporate them.
>
> I seem to be getting away with this now, but our site
> is going to become a lot more dynamic in the future.
>
> How can I make this easier?
>
> * Can I do a "clobber" type of import, like I could do
>   with an FTP site, for example -- just replace the files
>   I upload, but leave others intact?
>
> * Could I do a date-based export (i.e. export the objects
>   that have changed since the previous upload, and overload
>   that after I do my main import?)
>
> * Is there an "officially sanctioned zope method" for
>   merging content from the local site into the new site?
>
> * Can I do something like this with ZEO?  I know it's set
>   up to do it automatically, but I want to do it only on
>   demand, when I'm ready to commit my changes.
>
> * Can I write something in Zope/python to make it easier?
>   (Well, obviously the answer is 'yes', but I'm looking
>   for hints here :) ).
>
> * Could I somehow do this with CVS? I get the impression
>   that Zope's change-control system is supposed to replace
>   CVS, not work with it, but I'm very new at this.
>
> * I just saw something in the documentation about "sessions"
>   which seems similar in concept, but I don't know if it's
>   appropriate.
>
> I can't just use the FTP interface, because that wouldn't
> preserve object properties, without which my site would
> just fall apart.
>
> Please CC, as I receive this list in digest only.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Terry Hancock
> hancock@anansispaceworks.com
> Anansi Spaceworks
> http://www.anansispaceworks.com
> P.O. Box 60583
> Pasadena, CA 91116-6583
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