[Zope] Weird paths in the filesystem using Photo and ExtFile

[Pablo Ziliani]

Thanks a lot, Stefan, for your kind response, I didn't see that.
Although it's not clear to me who is responsible for this, I suppose 
that because of this "feature", storing Photos in the filesystem should 
be discouraged in multiple virtual host environments and that a big 
warning message added at least to this product's readme file.

Regards,
Pablo

Stefan H. Holek wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
>
> This comment from the ExtFile source code may shed some light on the 
> issue. Photos can for historical reasons, and without changes to the 
> Photo product, not take advantage of ZODB_PATH = PHYSICAL.
>
>     # XXX: The Photo product uploads into unwrapped ExtImages.
>     # As we can not reliably guess our parent object we fall back
>     # to the old behavior. This means that Photos will always
>     # use ZODB_PATH = VIRTUAL independent of config settings.
>
> Stefan
>
>
> On 25. Aug 2006, at 21:54, Pablo Ziliani wrote:
>
>> For example, if I call these "real" urls:
>> - 
>> http://zopeserver.com:8080/sites/site1/images/image.jpg?display=whatever
>> - 
>> http://zopeserver.com:8080/sites/site2/images/image.jpg?display=whatever
>>
>> in the filesystem I would have something like:
>> - 
>> $INSTANCE_HOME/var/photos/sites/site1/images/image.jpg/image_whatever.jpg 
>>
>> - 
>> $INSTANCE_HOME/var/photos/sites/site1/images/image.jpg/image_whatever.jpg 
>>
>>
>> but if I call the same via the virtual url:
>> - http://www.virtualsite1.com/images/image.jpg?display=whatever
>> - http://www.virtualsite2.com/images/image.jpg?display=whatever
>>
>> I only get:
>> $INSTANCE_HOME/var/photos/images/image.jpg/image_whatever.jpg
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