[Zope] Using Zope to generate offline content

[Chris McDonough]

There are no readymade solutions for this, as far as I know.

The primary reason that most other systems publish to static HTML files
is for performance.

You can get the same sort of performance benefit by putting Squid or
another HTTP cache in front of Zope as a reverse proxy and making sure
you set the proper cache headers on your cacheable pages.

In this way, you get the "best of both worlds" by having dynamic content
when you need it (generated by Zope), and  static content when it is
appropriate (cached by Squid).

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 06:19, David Burton wrote:
> I'd like to know if there is such a product, as opposed to using wget, since I'm working on a WYSIWYG Article Management System, and the main 
> competition varies most significantly in functionality by being able to publish the site to static HTML.
> It seems to be a standard feature of all the major CMSs (Microsoft CMS, Red Dot, Vignette, Broadvision, Insite, etc) and one thing that separates Zope from 
> these systems.
> 
> (In case anyone's wondering the sanity of losing all the dynamic features - you keep the dynamic menus, articles, etc (or at least a snapshot thereof) so you 
> mainly lose web forms (search engines and application forms) which can be done with either separate code, or done to point back to the Zope instance, and 
> you gain a huge performance increase, plus a staging environment.
> 
> If anyone can help, that would be great - otherwise I'll have to look into writing something myself.
> 
> Yours,
> David Burton
> 
> 21/05/2002 20:19:01, Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer@surbrunn.net> wrote:
> 
> >Isn't there a product that dumps a Zope site to html? (I know
> >there is - I just don't remember the name.) Unless I am mistaken,
> >there is a nice interface and all as well. 
> >
> >On Mon, 13 May 2002 19:30:51 +0200
> >"Christoph Roth" <c.roth@themelios.de> wrote:
> >
> >> On 13 May 2002 at 9:12, Christoph Schmitz wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Hi all,
> >> > 
> >> > I wonder if anyone uses Zope to generate "offline" content; what I mean is,
> >> > I'd like to use Zope to manage content, generate navigation stuff and the
> >> > like, but my ISP only offers static HTML pages. Thus, the idea is to export a
> >> > Zope site to static HTML pages and publish those. (Actually, I'm looking for a
> >> > replacement for the Website Meta Language (WML).)
> >>  (..)
> >> 
> >> Hi Christoph,
> >> 
> >> a good starting point for me was a short Howto "Mirror Zope with 
> >> wget" on Zope.org, look at
> >> 
> >> http://www.zope.org/Members/hdw/Tip/wget
> >> 
> >> Greetings,
> >> 
> >> Christoph
> >> 
> >> 
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> >Roger Oberholtzer
> >
> >
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