December 1998 - Zope

- Zope and SSL
by Ronald Offerman 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

I can run a secure Zope using pcgi and Apache-SSL. Anyone know of a way how to have ZopeHTTPServer do SSL? I don't want to allow management over insecure channels so is it possible to use a rewrite/URL refresh rule in Zope for /manage (it should redirect to https:) -- <- Ronald Offerman | ron(a)gjt-it.nl <- Root Powered Carrot Munchers Ltd. Inc. SA AG BV "Daddy, why do those people have to use Microsoft Windows?" "Don't stare, son; it's not polite." "M$ Windows NT, an accident waiting to happen" "What goes up, must come down. Ask any system administrator."

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- Bug in sample product?
by The Dragon De Monsyne 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

There's either a small bug in SampleProduct, or my zope install is loopy. I had to change this: > > from Globals import HTMLFile, MessageDialog > import OFS.SimpleItem, Persistence, Acquisition, AccessControl.Role > to this: < < from Globals import HTMLFile, MessageDialog < from BoboPOS import Persistence < import OFS.SimpleItem, Acquisition, AccessControl.Role < ... in sample/Product.py to get things to work. -The Dragon De Monsyne

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RE: [Zope] - 1.9b2 win32 feedback
by Brian Lloyd 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

> The installer ran flawlessly on NT4 Sp3 > > I chose to integrate Zope as a service w/ my Apache config. > > The doc/INSTALL.txt needs to be changed-- start.bat does not > exist, but > serve.bat does -- furthermore, serve.bat is not the right way > to starrt > Zope as a service -- instead, one needs to go to Control > Panels/Services/ > and select the name of the Zope install and click 'start'. 'serve.bat' should have been 'start.bat' -- that's my bad (forgot to update the installer). > > Running under Apache 1.3.0, /QuickStart and /manage don't > work, but I'm > not surprised -- Jeff Bauer has told me that 1.3.0 is broken in > authentication. > > A note pointing out that the authentication of Apache 1.3.0 is broken > w.r.t. Zope might save a bunch of complaints. I think we better documentation on integrating with existing servers generally - I hope to propose some things that might help this situation today. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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RE: [Zope] - MORE FROM THE NOVICE - HELP I AM DROWNING IN ZOPE! !!
by Brian Lloyd 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

> Sorry for the novice question but I cannot get the management > screens to > come up after I have installed ZOPE. > > Here is what I did. > > HW - ZOPE on winnt > > 1. Install Zope > 2. Choose to install it with the included webserver. > 3. Attempted to start Service on NT. > > CRASH (I know, NT!) Hmm -- though its no explanation for a crash, why did you choose to install using the existing web server and then start the service (which is unrelated to the built-in server version)? Note that "because I didn't know any better" is a perfectly valid response -- I think we need a better explanation of the options available on NT ;) > > 4. If I run the serve batch file, and start the Server it > seems ok. I can > view information on my local IP at port :8080 but as soon as > I attempt to > look at the management screens, BAM Nothing. Is the service you tried to start still running? The two are basically mutually exclusive - both cannot have the persistent object database open at the same time. > I am picking up events in the event logs as follows: > > I definitly think it is a configuration issue here are the > events(4 critical > occur): > > a.The Open Procedure for service "ISAPISearch" in DLL > "QPerf.dll" failed. > Performance data for this service will not be available. Status code > returned is DWORD 0. > > b.The Open Procedure for service "ContentIndex" in DLL > "QPerf.dll" failed. > Performance data for this service will not be available. Status code > returned is DWORD 0. > > c.The Open Procedure for service "ContentFilter" in DLL > "QPerf.dll" failed. > Performance data for this service will not be available. Status code > returned is DWORD 0. > a, b, and c are unrelated to Zope - they are coming from your IIS installation. > d.The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( ted ) could > not be found. > It contains the following insertion string(s): PyImport_ImportModule: > ZPublisher.Publish The system cannot find the file specified. (null). > > I named my installation (ted) and I have never seen anything > to make me > think I need to logon??? It *looks* like the service failed to start up -- do you by any chance have an existing python installed (esp. a 1.5.2 alpha)? In any event, if you did not choose to install Zope as a service, you will not be able to get to it via IIS anyway. The easiest way to figure out what's going on here is for you to: 1. stop the 'ted' service and make sure it is set as 'disabled' or 'manual' start in the NT service manager. 2. run the serve.bat script in your ted installation to start the built-in server. 3. try to access 'http://localhost:8080/manage'. If you fail to access the management screen, send me the exact contents of the reply the browser gives you (by doing 'view source'). Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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RE: [Zope] - Zope, DTML and XML
by Jeffrey Shell 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

> From: Jim Fulton [mailto:jim@digicool.com] > In other words, I see XSL as an alternative to DTML, not > another form of it. > > Or, DTML may turn out to be a good tool for generating XML > from objects, and > then XSL could be applied to DTML output, in which case the two would > act in tandem. I agree. There are already a good number of XSL processors that can do their job far better than we could. We can publish objects out to XML and hand it over to the XSL much more easily (and with better results). I think our XML focus should stay on the exchange of data (input/output) rather than the formatting.

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RE: [Zope] - Small bug
by Brian Lloyd 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

> Paul Prescod wrote: > > > > swhome=r'C:\Temp\Paul's Site' > > Hee hee. (Damn Windows. ;) > > Good suggestion. Thanks. > > Jim This is my bad. The installer shouldn't let you choose a name w/ quotes or spaces (or backslashes or some other things) in the first place, for other reasons in addition to the problem shown above. This has been fixed. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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RE: [Zope] - win95 TCP/IP
by Jeff Bauer 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

> File "C:\Temp\Paul's Site/lib/python1.5\BaseHTTPServer.py", > line 97, in server_bind > hostname, hostnames, hostaddrs = socket.gethostbyaddr(host) > socket.error: host not found > > I think that on WinNT there was some kind of loopback > adapter I could install. I can't find an equivalent for > Windows 95. Paul, I don't use Win95 (or Win98) so the following advice could be totally bogus, but you should have a file on your system: C:\windows\hosts If it's called hosts.sam, copy or rename it to hosts. The file should have a line in it that looks something like: 127.0.0.1 localhost If you add an entry that matches what BaseHTTPServer.py considers to be host, you should be okay. Regards, Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc.

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- Small bug
by Paul Prescod 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

swhome=r'C:\Temp\Paul's Site' A triple quoted string might be better for this generated code! -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Sports utility vehicles are gated communities on wheels" - Anon

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- Is this a bug?
by Butch Landingin 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

I've just started playing around with Zope and the Plutonia example so I don't know enough to figure this one out: I defined the standard_html_header as follows : ---start of standard_html_header-------- <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE></TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <P></P> ---end of standard_html_header-------- and in each of the the folders News, Products and Research, there an index_html (e.g. title : Plutonia News) with the following text (or something like it) : -----start of index_html---------  <H2> </H2> <P> Welcome to Plutonia News Section!</P> <P> We don't have any news items to report yet though. </P>  -----end of index_html--------- When the page is rendered, the document_title is displayed correctly as <H2> Plutonia News </H2>. However the standard_html_header template expansion has this quirky behavior : the PlutoniaLogo is translated correctly into PlutoniaLogo but the document_title in between the <TITLE> tags is empty! See the rendered HTML: ---start of rendered HTML -------- <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE></TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <P><IMG SRC="PlutoniaLogo" ALT="PlutoniaLogo"></P> <H2> Plutonia News</H2> <P> Welcome to Plutonia News Section!</P> <P> We don't have any news items to report yet though.</P> </BODY></HTML> ---end of rendered HTML -------- Question: What's the difference in evaluating the document_title inside standard_html_header and evaluating it inside index_html ? Is there no dynamic or recursive expansion of variables at all? Is there anything that I'm missing here? If there is no recursive expansion of variables, is there anyway I can put a dynamically evaluated variable in the standard_html_header so that it displays the correct title? Other than this, I think Zope is pretty cool. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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- No Zope.cgi
by John Totten 14 Dec '98

14 Dec '98

When installed on W32 selecting IIS as the server - the install script fails to create Zope.cgi. Checking the code - it should come from inst/product_install.pyc. How do I run this? John Totten

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