[Zope] Zope/system/Web file relations

Day Irmiter dayi@peoplepc.com
Mon, 24 Jun 2002 01:39:02 -0600


Got it. Thanks!

> > For example, to what does http://localhost:8080/
> > correspond on the hard drive? \Zope\bin?
> 
> ZOPE stores all data in a database... called the ZopeObjectDataBase
> [ZODB]. What you see in the Zope Management Interface [ZMI] is a view on
> this object-oriented database. You should drop the idea of files &
> folders [as used for traditional web-servers] and think of objects with
> methods & properties stored in a Database. This gives you the power to
> use Zope not only as a Web-Server, but as an Operating-System for the
> Internet... Zope is really the Linux for the Internet...;-)
> 
> > Perhaps related to this is the question of how I
> > get outside the Zope management interface - i.e.,
> > if I have a small application built, how do I access
> > it directly from a blank browser, rather than through
> > the management interface?
> 
> Simply call your "object" [or document / folder] simply via the Url:
> 
> http://localhost:8080/yourTestFolder/IdOfYourDocument
> 
> create a folder with an id=test, enter it, create a DTML Document with
> id=hello, edit it and then call:
> 
> http://localhost:8080/test/hello
> 
> keep zoped, maik
> 
> -- 
> Maik Jablonski                         Deutsche Zope User Group    
> www.zfl.uni-bielefeld.de                           www.dzug.org
> 
>