[Zope] Apache and ZServer

[Paul Everitt]

Chris wrote:
> > Sounds good to me.  Can anyone see any problems with doing 
> this?  Would Zope
> > care if both the Apache and ZServer parts were running side-by-side?
> 
> Can you say lock management? :-) RIght now the POS doesn't support
> multiple writers, and I don't think there's any way for ZServer NOT to
> write to the database.  (I mean guarantee it).  So either 
> you'd need to
> wait for Zbase3 (is this the right name? :-) which has 
> concurrent writer
> support in theory, or figure out a way to guarantee that the 
> apache side
> of it not to touch it.  Also, you'd have caching issues, I'd think.

Hate to do this to you buddy, but you're wrong.  ZServer implements
HTTP, FTP, *and* PCGI in the same publishing system (which also happens
to be threaded now).  Thus you *can* have one process listening
simultaneously for connections of through Apache and FTP.

--Paul