[ZWeb] FYI: Readying the "Zope Download Center"

george donnelly list@zettai.net
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:06:38 -0500


> From: Paul Everitt <paul@eurozope.org>
> 
> I did this back in July.  Here's the problems I discovered:
> 
> 1) URLs make it hard to accurately say "what is zope".  There's
> different versions of Zope, there's patch files, there are the
> different binaries.

not sure how to fix this or even visualize the problem but a slightly more
expensive solution that would be infinitely customizable would be
mod_log_sql: all apache log data gets dropped in to an sql db.

> 
> 2) The log files are currently being munched by webalizer and then
> thrown out.  Thus, if the URL you want isn't in the list of top 20
> hits, you're screwed.  All the information is lost, since the original
> data are deleted.  (This was the problem that blocked me, as I never
> had access to the boxes where the munching was done).

this is totally customizable in webalizer.conf...

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