Zope Management Interface and WebDav

Have been playing with Plone - another open source content management system / community tool. It uses Zope as the underlying technology. I've discovered how to browse the Zope Management Interface (ZMI) using WebDav through Apple's Finder. This makes remote administration a breeze, and it's a doddle to get running.

Open the zope.conf file in /applications/plone2/sites/nameofsite/etc/

Locate the first instance of "<webdav-source-server>" and uncomment the following section.

 <webdav-source-server>
   # valid keys are "address" and "force-connection-close"
   address $PLONE_DAVSERVER_PORT
   force-connection-close off
 </webdav-source-server>

Connect to your site through the Go menu (in Mac OS X)
Enter the ZMI username and password

By Jonathan at 3 Jul 2005 - 5:28pm
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Stephen Powell

Certainly Plone has the potential to be head an shoulders above any online learning platform I have seen leaving open source offerings such as Moodle, Sakai, and Boddingtons well behind as well as Blackboard and WebCT. Anyone else know of anything that they would recommend?

By visitor at 3 Jul 2005 - 7:39pm
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