CMFVirtualFolder

Hi. So, you have your main domain name pointed to a cmf instance, but you want to be able to also access your top Zope root. It depends on what you need, but the safest route to go for all of the different virtual host products, I think, is to create a subdomain for top-level access. You can do this with all versions of the VHF as well as with any of the SiteAccess? tools. Effectively, if your domain is mysite.com, I'm suggesting setting up your virtual host rules so that root.mysite.com (or zoperoot.mysite.com or admin.mysite.com, whatever you want) goes to your zope root.

In the VHF, each Host object usually represents one virtual root. So assuming you already have one Host object that maps anything.mysite.com to your CMF instance, create a new host object that only maps admin.mysite.com to your zope root. Then move the new Host object higher in the order of hosts, above the catch-all Host object, so that the VHF will check your new admin host object before it checks the catch-all host object. Done.

There are other circumstances in which you might need to access content outside of the current virtual host tree: that is what the Alias object allows (the Alias is new in this release). It is a powerful, difficult, glorious, hideous hack that allows you to insert a switch, as you said, to seem to put content from elsewhere in the tree into the current host only. With it, you could have a url of mysite.com/my_alias/content, in which "my_alias" would put you in the zope root, or anywhere else you wanted to be, and "content" would be looked for in that new location. It can do all kinds of weird and possibly wonderful things. However, it involves tricky acquisition issues, and it is a hack. Be careful with it, and I do not recommend planning on managing your Zope through it. Use it wisely. :)

Hope that helps.