[Zope] object shortcuts

[J Cameron Cooper]

David Bear wrote:
> I was hoping to place some short cut object in the root of my zope
> site that point directly down into certain folder within the plone
> site. Silva has something called a shadow. I was wondering if there is
> something that can be used generally to create a 'rewrite' object.
> 
> For example:
> 
> if my zope plone site looks like this
> 
> \
> \standardzopestuff
> \standardzopestuff\plonesite\members\ploneuser\coolstuff
> 
> I would like to have a url like
> 
> \coolstuff
> 
> that maps straight into the ploneusers folder.
> 
> I don't know what to call this.. in apache this would be a rewrite. Is
> there a zope product that does something like this?
> 

MovableHole would seem to fit the bill. There are also Products called 
Rewriter and Redirector, though I've never successfully used them.

There may also be a few others. If you want redirection rather than an 
alias, you might use MovedObject.

One could also write a Python script to do such things.

   return plonesite.members.ploneuser.coolstuff

would act as that folder.

   request.RESPONSE.redirect('plonesite/members/ploneuser/coolstuff')

would do a redirect.

		--jcc