[Zope] APE/DBTab Help

[J Cameron Cooper]

Charlie Jones wrote:

> Zope 2.1.6 / Plone 1.0.5 / RedHat 9 (all patched up)
>
> The end result is that I want to wrap Plone around this content.  I've 
> written a python script to rip out the tops and bottoms of the files 
> and replace them with dtml headers and footers.  Now I just need to 
> get them served.  I tried LocalFS and it didn't play nice with Plone.
>
> I will have several Plone instances using this content.  Which is why 
> I want it on the FS, to reduce the amount of space on the server and 
> in the Plone instance.  If there was some type of symbolic link 
> product that would work also.  A folder inside of Plone actually 
> pointing to another folder in Zope.

There are a number of these, with slightly different characteristics. 
PortableHole and Reference, possibly mxmRelation, Rewriter, or 
Redirector. If your files won't be managed as content, you might as well 
get 'em through the skins tool, which would be your easiest and most 
reasonable option.

Of course, APE should work as well, but I've not done that before. I'm 
surprised that the included examples don't do this.

          --jcc

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