[Zope] Could this be what you want? [Was: Looking for variation of ExternalFile product]

[Stefan H. Holek]

Some time ago I have modified ExtFile to allow for 3) as well. And now I've 
even published it ;-).

<http://www.zope.org/Members/shh/ExtFile/>

HTH,
Stefan


--On Montag, 07. April 2003 15:10 +0200 Oliver Bleutgen <myzope@gmx.net> 
wrote:

> Thanks for the answer, and sorry for not being clearer, but I not quite
> sure myself how to really accomplish what I want. What I need is:
>
> 1) Files shouldn't be stored in the zodb
> 2) Files should be managable (delete, create, update) from zope
> 3) Files shouldn't be served from zope
> 4) No additional administration outside apache is needed.
>
> The products I mentioned accomplish 1), 2) and 4). They can accomplish
> 3), but only if users always remember to link to these files in a
> "special" way, i.e. with a different path than they would link them if
> they were normal zope objects. FS Cache Manager accomplishes 3) (at least
> well enough for me), but not 4), while I wouldn't mind 2 lines in
> httpd.conf. That's why I thought about a product like LocalsFS which
> would just - instead of delivering the file when it's called from the web
> - raise a redirect to an appropriate URI where then apache would serve
> the file.

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