[Zope] Zope for 200 users?

Rob Page rob.page@digicool.com
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:48:46 -0400


>  I'm going to setup Zope 2 on a machine with about 200 users (now
>  using Apache). I don't know how many are going to use Zope.
> 
>  I'd like to use Zope trought Apache. Each user should have his
>  ressources un his home dir (e.g. /~user/zope/).
> 
>  Now my Question. Do I have to start a z2.py for each user (Described
>  in http://www.zope.org:18200/Members/jec/virtual_howto_html) or is
>  there a better solution?

Zope objects are stored in the Zope object database.  As a result, an
approach where users have their resources in the server's hard disk
(e.g., ~user/zope) won't work (without some calisthenics)...

Zope has the notion of folders which are close analogs of directories.
It's likely that your users might never know their stuff isn't on the
filesystem but rather in the ZODB (until, that is, you Undo their
delete!  :^)

--Rob