newbie question

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moshez at zadka.site.co.il@SMTP at python.org on 23/03/2001 20:26:40
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On 23 Mar 2001, claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) wrote:

<snipped a lot of wise things about CGI and Apache>
>> That's a lot more exciting
>> for them than hearing that, with a mere week or two of
>> study, they can install Zope on their own.

>That's pure FUD. Zope takes <depending on your internet connection> time
>to install, about 5 minutes to compile and 30 seconds to startup. And
>using it is not necessarily harder then learning CGI. I'm only mentioning
>it because "Zope is hard" seems to be a commonly uttered phrase, one that
>I believed until I actually had to get a Zope server up and running.

I have given an introductory course on Linux. Most of the people involved
had no previous experience with it. I mentioned Zope only once, and at the
end of the course one of the trainees came to me and said :
'We have been experimenting with Zope, very nice, very easy'

>Hooking up Zope to Apache (say, with reverse proxying) is very easy, though
>it does use some Apache configuration knowledge. This can all be learned
>in a day, and anyone seriously using Apache needs to know about this
>stuff.
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