thank you. i understand now. the plone controller was the reason why i
got confused:
for example, this page has the screen shot of the "ports" UI of the
controller (see section 7):
http://python.developpez.com/cours/plone2/. the UI shows two http
ports, one for plone, another for zope, which made
> Hello,
>
> i have been reading about zope and plone for a few days now, and i have
> a question that i could not find an answer to.
>
> i understand zope is a server, that is, it is a process in OS. from what
> i could gather from the documentation, plone is a cms built on top of
> zope.
Right!
Zope isn't really a server. It's got some server elements but it's
core is around the storage and retrieval of data in a controlled
manner.
Plone is just a big bunch of well written scripts and templates and
images that is written inside Zope. Not too different from how
pgMyAdmin is a packaged solu
