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Publishing HTML Documents on the Web2survey Zope
Server
By Dr
Rich Herrington, ACS Research and Statistical Support Services
Consultant
This month we take a look at publishing
HTML documents on our Zope survey server:
https://web2survey.unt.edu/
We will be using the following two software utilities:
Novell's
Netdrive WebDAV client and drive-mapper, and
NVU's open source HTML editor. Our demonstration will assume a
Microsoft Windows Platform; however, WebDAV utilities exist
for MacOS platform (e.g.
Goliath).
Mapping a drive to the Zope File System
After installing Netdrive and running the program you will want to
configure the connection settings. First we want check and see
what drive assignment is available for our Zope address. Click on
"My Computer" and look for an available letter for drive assignment
(e.g. O:\ ). Open Netdrive and you will see the following
configuration screen:
You will want to provide the URL to your account: e.g.
https://web2survey.unt.edu/users/rich/
Provide the drive letter that the Zope file system will map to - e.g. O:
. Next, make sure that Anonymous/Public Logon is NOT
enabled; provide your Username and Password that were provided
with your Zope account. Finally, click the connect button in the
upper right portion of the panel. A Explorer type window will
spawn. Copy - Paste and Drag - Drop functionality is
available for this drive assignment - O:\ .
Basically, any software that can write to the file system should see the
O: drive as an available drive. Consult
Novell's website documentation on Netdrive for further details on
using this drive mapping utility.
Creating HTML Documents on Zope Using NVU
The NVU HTML Editor provides very similar functionality to Microsoft
FrontPage or Dreamweaver. While not as feature rich as these
popular proprietary HTML editor's, NVU has an impressive array of
functionality for a free program:
To save content to the mapped drive (e.g. O:\ ) choose "File - Save
As". You may be prompted for a title for the webpage:
This content saves to the O:\ drive, but since the O: drive is mapped
to
https://web2survey.unt.edu/users/rich/ the content is
automatically available for web browsing. In Firefox we browse the
URL and view the webpage:
I hope this very simple demonstration of authoring content on our
Web2survey Zope server solves the tricky issue of working with HTML on
Zope. Until next time....Happy computing!
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