Diazo to align non-Plone site with Plone site theme

Plone Support Theming
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I'm on a project now where there are two sites for one customer. They have:

  • A Plone site, which acts as the marketing site
  • A non-Plone site that is used for selling products/services.

The non-Plone is very old and managed by a third party. We don't have direct access and can't customize their theme. I'm exploring the feasibility of "proxying" the non-Plone site behind a Diazo theme. Worst case scenario I'll use a stand-alone Diazo server, I'm concerned about messing up the e-commerce functionality.

Should I just use Diazo stand-alone? Are there issues I need to pay attention to? I figure "forwarding" or "proxying" HTTP headers properly will be critical. Any thoughts or guidance would be appreciated.

2

It hasn't been done often. Last time someone asked this, there was one person who said they'd done it.

3

Someone's got to do it.

4

Here's that thread: Using Diazo outside of Plone