Re: [seul-edu] Zope Question

[Bruno Vernier <vernier@vc.bc.ca>]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:03:51PM -0400, Ryan Booz wrote:

> 2.  OK, this is kind of two part.  First, where does Zope actually store
> all of the directories and files you create for a site.  If I have a
> fake directory as the "trigger" for the persistent CGI process, than
> where does it actually store this pages I'm creating?  As an example,
> following the install instructions that comes with Zope, I've set Apache
> to send every request for /zope to the FastCGI process running in the
> background.  That directory does not exist in my htdocs directory.
> Where is this stuff going?

zope stores in a database which is stored in a file called Data.fs found in
/var/lib/zope/var on my debianized zope.  There is nothing "fake" about the
directory.  Zope stores objects in a hierarchical database.  Think "objects"
not "files" when using zope.

>     Two, can I get Zope to answer the general requests for a site (like
> www.bms.school my internal server and fake domain.)  Rather than having
> to specify a directory, it would just send all requests to Zope.  But to
> take that one step further, if I had user accounts set up with the
> /~username convention, would this stuff be able to pass through Zope and
> actually go to those directories?  I don't think I'm making this
> question clear, but I don't know how else to state it right now.

I don't think so.  THe ~ (tilde) convention works with apache and
/home/username/public_html  but since zope is an object database, there is
no need for ~.  This, to me, is a feature since URLs need not have ~ in
them, and yet the security model is still just as strong.

I put all my students in something like   hostname/zope/student/<username here>

This zope thread should really go into one of the zope mailing lists (listed
on the zope website www.zope.org) unless there is some minimum evidence that
there are more than just the two or three of us interested in zope.

Bruno