[Zope] Re: ChartDirector and Zope

[hpinson at indepthl.com]

Hi Paul, yes I did, but not as an external python method, which is 
what I was hoping for.

What I ended up doing was defining a cgi-local folder under the 
Apache site root, which sits in front of my Zope instance.  Using 
rewriterules I can access the cgi-local directory from Zope and pass 
arguments to the python chart script and render results with no 
problems:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.yoursite.org
ServerAlias yoursite.org *.yoursite.org
ServerAdmin info at yoursite.org
CustomLog /var/log/apache/yoursite.org/combined_log "%h %l %u %t 
\"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/
Alias /cgi-local/ /var/www/html/yoursite.org/cgi-local/

<Directory "/var/www/html/yoursite.org/cgi-local">
    Options +ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

# Zope rewrite.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /cgi-local/ - [L]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) 
http://216.147.203.60:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/www.mystandards.org:80
/http/mystandards.org/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P]

</VirtualHost>

The Perl version of ChartDirector would work too in this instance, 
but I am very happy with the Python library. FYI... ChartDirector is 
just outstanding for the price, and very much worth the 100 dollars 
it costs.  The variety of charts (that work) is just amazing!

I would very much have liked to get this working as a Zope external 
Python method, but had no luck at all with that, and ran out of time 
to research. No sure at all what the problem was, but I could not 
render output at all from the chart.  If you figure this out, please 
let me know.


Harlow Pinson
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