[thechat] Re: [thelist] was [***chat] Mirroring (with tip)

John Handelaar john at userfrenzy.com
Sat Apr 6 08:05:00 CST 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Martin
> Sent: 06 April 2002 09:31
> To: thechat at lists.evolt.org
> Cc: Joe Crawford
> Subject: [thechat] Re: [thelist] was [***chat] Mirroring (with tip)
>
> On Saturday, April 6, 2002, at 03:04  am, Joe Crawford wrote:
>
> >> btw is that a manual mirror, or is it done programmatically?
> >> (asking because I want to mirror my staging server (Zope, content
> >> managed) up to my production box (static HTML with a few CGIs
> >> for run-time fun))
> >
> > hey Martin, you could cron a curl <http://curl.haxx.se/> task to ftp
> > your stuff up to the production box. curl is very slick!
>
> Couple of problems:
> 1) In Zope, everything's in an OO db so it's not *quite* so simple as
>      locate the files in the FS and ftp. Zope *can* pretend to be a FS
>      using ftp or WebDav, but that makes it a 2 step process.
> 2) From the FAQ: Curl is not a web site mirroring program.

Tried cron+wget yet?  I'm sure I've seen it used as a
kind of Webwhacker clone before...

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