[Zope] Hosting files sitting out in the OS file structure from Zope

[Andreas Jung]

Use LocalFS

--On Freitag, 18. Oktober 2002 09:41 -0700 Robert_J_Roberts@RL.gov wrote:

> I am running:
>
> Zope Version       (Zope 2.5.1 (binary release, python 2.1, win32-x86),
> python 2.1.3, win32)
> Python Version    2.1.3 (#35, Apr 8 2002, 17:47:50) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)]
> System Platform  win32
>
>
> Can anyone tell me how to host pages via Zope if the pages are not
> actually internal to the ZODB?
>
> I had to install MRTG on our network.  MRTG writes out a number of HTML
> files.  It just writes them to a directory sitting on the hard drive of
> the server. (e.g. c:\mrtg\docs\<somename.html>)
>
> I would like to serve those pages with my Zope server.
>
> The pages are updated every 5 minutes or so, hence, I am not inclined to
> sit there FTP'ing them up into Zope as they are created :)
>
> I thought I was well on the way to solving the issue by using Apache,
> mod_rewrite, and SiteBase.  Much to my surprise, I ended up with Apache
> serving Zope content and NOT the other way around.  Maybe I did it wrong,
> but more likely (after re-reading all the documentation) I didn't
> understand what I was doing in the first place and got it working just
> like it should, it just wasn't what I wanted.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to serve pages out of my file system using Zope
> while still being able to serve all of my ZODB content?
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert J. Roberts
> robert_j_roberts@rl.gov
>
>
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