[Zope] Virtual HostMonster article

[Cees de Groot]

jasonic@nomadicsltd.com said:
> That sound just like what I am looking for.. and for similar reasons.
> Is your product posted anywhere?

Nope. When things get quieter here, I'm planning to separate out a bunch of 
goodies I wrote the last half year and post them, but at the moment I'm too 
busy for that.

It's not that it is much code:

#
#  $Id: VirtualHostFolder.py,v 1.2 2001/05/03 13:24:04 cg Exp $
#
from Globals import HTMLFile
from OFS import Folder
from Products.ZCatalog import CatalogAwareness
from Products.SiteAccess import SiteRoot
import string

class VirtualHostFolder(Folder.Folder, CatalogAwareness.CatalogAware):
    """A virtual host folder"""
 
    meta_type = 'TIO Virtual Host Folder'
 
    def __init__(self, sitename):
        self.id = sitename.lower().replace('.', '_')
        self.title = sitename
        self.default_catalog = 'sites'
 
    def manage_beforeDelete(self, item, container):
        print "Deleting stuffsky..."
        Folder.Folder.manage_beforeDelete(self, item, container)
        self.unindex_object()
 
def manage_add_virtualhostfolder(self, sitename, REQUEST=None, submit=None):
    'Add a Virtual Host Folder'
    o = VirtualHostFolder(sitename)
    self._setObject(o.id, o)
    SiteRoot.manage_addSiteRoot(o)
    getattr(self, o.id).index_object()
 
    if REQUEST is not None:
        self.manage_main(self, REQUEST, update_menu=1)
 
manage_add_virtualhostfolder_form = \
    HTMLFile('manage_add_virtualhostfolder_form', globals())   

--
and using it from an AccessRule:

def vhost(self, REQUEST):
    hostname = string.split(REQUEST['HTTP_HOST'], ':')[0]
    r = self.sites({ 'id': string.replace(hostname, '.', '_')})
    if len(r) == 1:
        path = string.split(r[0].getPath(), '/')[1:]
        path.reverse()
        REQUEST['TraversalRequestNameStack'].extend(path)
        REQUEST.set('SiteRootPATH', '/')
    else:   
        # I look into a SQL database here to do things like business cards
        # and redirects

as you can see, still SiteRoot based. I don't even have the time to subject 
VHM to a decent evaluation yet :=)


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