[Zope] Beginners questions

[Jim Penny]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:32:09 -0000
"Edward Comber" <comber at cix.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks very much, that was helpful.
> 
> I mean as my front end pages - should they be ZPTs preferably?

In my opinion, index_html should almost always be a Script (Python). 
Its main reason for existence is to choose what will be presented to the
user next, that is, it is inherently logic!

What is presented should be, at least 95% of the time, ZPT based.

> 
> WRT Apache - this is an Intranet and I think the simplicity of Zserver
> will be useful and the power of Apache isn't needed.

Tino has already added static content as a reason for apache.  Another
is mod_rewrite.  You can use this to redirect users to different
machines, or ports transparently.  This will save you much grief when
you are porting between releases, as you can keep the older, working
version in place and phase in the new version folder by folder. Yet
another reason is SSL support; even on the intranet, I use SSL traffic,
so that when it leaves the premises I won't forget and leave cleartext
passwords.

Jim Penny