[Zope] Using Zope to manage and serve large files

[Robin Y. Millette]

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Heimo Laukkanen wrote:

| Often when my customers have got used to Zope and especially Plone as
| the UI to manage their website, questions go to using Zope and Plone for
| document management in intranet. It is old story that we all know how
| Zope sucks while serving large files compared to Apache. Serving large
| files from filesystem with Apache however takes out the whole point of
| using Zope - security mechanism etc.
|
| Has anyone achieved to combine Zope and Apache/php to serve and manage
| large files in a way that allows metadata and security of the files to
| be managed in Zope, but actual serving happens from Apache so that
| ZServer does not hog memory and processor.

I was just reading this:
http://www.zope.org/Members/guy_davis/install_routes

You don't really have to use zserver to use zope - maybe this is what
you want: using pcgi/mod_pcgi.

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Robin Y. Millette (aka Lord D. Nattor)
http://rym.waglo.com
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