[Zope] index.html and symlinks

marc lindahl marc@bowery.com
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:40:51 -0400


> From: Markus Schaber <markus.schaber@student.uni-ulm.de>
> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:35:41 +0200
> To: "marc lindahl" <marc@bowery.com>
> Subject: Re: [Zope] index.html and symlinks
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:19:55 -0400, "marc lindahl" <marc@bowery.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>> I have two questions:
>>> First, is there any possibility to use the name "index.html" instead
>>> of"index_html" as default name for the directory indes? I ask this
>>> because we want to transform a web project into zope, and we don't
>>> want to change the URLs.
>> 
>> Check out load_site.py, it's part of the release.  It does that for
>> you.
> 
> Thanks for the interesting pointer. We won't be able to use it directly (as we
> have a rather wicked layout so we have to snip out the content manually), but
> it's a good help!

load_site.py isn't actually too hard to modify (I did some mods to it,
http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc) so maybe you could automate the
process with that....


> 
> (if you want to take a look at the original site, look at
> http://www.gemeinsamlernen.de/ [german only] and
> http://www.gemeinsamlernen.de/europa/solill/ [multilingual] - all managed
> manually by copy and paste up to now :-)
> 
>>> Second, is there some kind of "symlink", that means making one page
>>> accessible at another path using another name?
>> You can make a DTML method that does a dtml-raise redirect (that's how
>> load_site does it)
> 
> I'll try this. I guess that one "index.html" sitting in the root should be
> enough because of aquisition.

Yes, that's right.   You could also do a default.html, index.htm -- some
serach engines like to see those types of things.


> 
> markus
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