[Zope] ZODB limits

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:09:07AM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2004, at 3:06 AM, Toby Dickenson wrote:
> 
> >>	Now how do I tell Zope to use DirectoryStorage instead of 
> >>FileStorage?
> >
> >This is step 5 in doc/install in your DirectoryStorage distribution, 
> >also at
> >http://dirstorage.sourceforge.net/install.html
> 
> 	I think I see the problem now. I use the -u switch to start Zope, 
> 	and DS isn't compatible with that. Guess I have to overhaul my Zope 
> installation before I think about switching.

-u is evil anyway. Last time i checked, it didn't work at all with ZEO.
IMO there are better ways to present zope on privileged ports:

* use a reverse proxy (pound, apache, squid). There are plenty of
other good reasons to do this, not least HTTP sanitization.

* configure your system to forward packets on the privileged port 
to the non-privileged zope port. Our sysadmin did
this on Linux using ipchains when we needed to present zope's ftp
port on port 21.  
The only limitation we encountered is that you cannot test
it on localhost.

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