[Zope-CMF] Moving CMF Site from Linux to Windows

Marc Fischer marcbpc@gmx.de
Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:53:21 +0200 (MEST)


Thanks Sebastien, 

that helped :-) I modified it by hand with only a few klicks!



> 
>    Marc,
> 
> > I've got problems by moving my cmf site (with the full "local.fs" or
> just
> > with zexp-import) to a windows installation. I use RedHat 7 and Win98
> (both
> > with Zope240).
> > 
> > The problem is, that the standard folders in the portal_skin-tool like
> > "generic" are empty! Not my custom folders, only the standard ones!
> 
> 
> This problem bite me last week: the problem is that the 'Filesystem
> Directory
> Views' 's path should be like 'folder1/folder2' on linux, and
> 'folder1\folder2' for windows.
> 
>   You can edit all your fs directory views properties and change all '/'
> with
> '\' -- everything will be fine again.
> 
> Alternatively I proposed a patch here:
>   http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-cmf/2001-October/010048.html
> which works fine for me -- but nobody but me ever says that there were no
> unwanted side-effects, hmmm...
>   What it does is change DirectoryViewSurrogate to update the underlying
> path
>   whenever it needs to (you'll have to pack the database afterwards, since
> it
>   makes it 'a bit' grow --depending on how much fs-dir.views are updated).
> 
>         Hope this helps, regards,
> 
> -- SB aka Big.
> 

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