CMF Virtual Host Tool

This tool, in late alpha, provides a common mechanism for working with virtual hosts within a CMF instance. It allows skin lists and default skins to be defined per host, provides an API for obtaining breadcrumbs and object paths relative to the current host, and allows the setting and getting of arbitrary properties per host. Moreover, it includes dtml and zpt skins that let you use the virtual host title as a CMF sub-site title, and includes updated preferences skins that provide CMF access to many of these features. It requires an active Virtual Host Folder in the root directory to work.

Managers may restrict what skins are available to a given domain; owners of the domain's root folder can further limit available skins, and choose a default skin for the domain. This functionality requires a modified portal_skins tool as well, which is currently implemented as a monkey-fix.

Gary Poster,