October 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

DTML equiv of eval (again).
by chas 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

Just when I thought I understood how to use _['var' + x] as an equivalent of eval() within DTML, this one trips me up : /index_html /Images /imgDogs /imgCats why does this work : <dtml-with Images> <dtml-var "_['img' + x]"> </dtml-with> where x = 'Dogs' But this does not : <dtml-var "_['Images.img' + x]"> I've checked and this certainly would have worked : <dtml-var "Images.imgDog"> Thanks, chas

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malformed <base> tag
by Sascha Matzke 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

Hello, I've tried this with w3m and Emacs w3-mode... When I access my local zope server at 192.168.1.2:9090 with them I get an malformed <base> tag returned from zope (<base href="http://192.168.1.2/">) which should be something like (<base href="http://192.168.1.2:9090/">)... I'm running the zope cvs-version (last checked yesterday)... Sascha -- .-> Sascha Matzke - sascha(a)bespin.de - http://www.bespin.de -. | I wanna be the mover to real anarchy !!!!!!! | | ATR | `-- On this earth for 23 years, 355 days <----------------'

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Re: [Zope] Render DTML Document title inside another DTML Document in parent folder
by Ping Lau 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

Ethan, >Please use plain text when writing to the list. thanks. Sorry. >> Ping Lau wrote: >> FolderA >> Doc1 >> FolderB >> FolderC >> Doc2 >> In Doc1, I want to display Doc2's title. I tried <dtml-var title>. >> But it rendered Doc1's title instead of Doc2's title. How can I >> render Doc2's title? > >Make Doc1 a method and not a Document. I can't make Doc1 a method because Doc1 needs a few properties to support rendering its content. What I am trying to do is putting the common properties & methods in Doc1. Then call Doc1 from any DTML Document from any sub folders of FolderA. Doc1 will use its own properties to render common results & use caller's properties to render unique results. Have you or anyone done this before? Regards, Ping

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version export
by Ethan Fremen 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

I was enthused with the idea of versions, because I have a remote and local copy of the same site. So I made some changes, and exported the 'version' file. It was 200 bytes. Is there any way to export a 'version'- IE, all the objects that have been modified by a version, and the version- and then import and commit it into another Zope? Thanks, -- ~mindlace

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Investigations into UserDB
by Evan Gibson 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

Morning Everyone... I have a copy of UserDB working off a Gadfly database and, in the course of some investigations today, have discovered a few things about it. First off someone in the past commented that he couldn't get cookie based authentication to work and so had hacked the UserDb file to comment out the first two lines in validate. def validate(self,request,auth='',roles=None): if self.cookie_mode: return self.cookie_validate(request, auth, roles) return self.std_validate(request, auth, roles) When first installed UserDB I had a similar problem (It ALWAYS asking me to validate, and not accepting _any_ username or password I type in.) I actually looked myself out of my site for a while. So I used his "fix" and my problems went away... Other people said they didn't have this problem. Guess what? The default cookie authentication works under Netscape but NOT under the latest version of IE on my computer at home. (Well, actually, what really happens is that anytime the popup password window is triggered it will fail _anything_ you type in if you have cookie based auth on, but that window pops up without any prompting on IE.) Next. Another guy wrote that: ---- If you change line 469 of lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py from md.validate=self.validate to md.validate=None Then UserDb authentication will take place instead of the bogus standard type which doesn't exist. ----- And this fixes the problem that turns up under IE, it'll actually let me view my front page now. But now I HAVE to go to my front page and login, I can't go straight to the manage page at all, even the superuser password doesn't work. Also the manage page behaves _very_ strangely under this arrangement. Sometimes (non-repeatable, I hate that) I click on a folder in the left column and it _automatically_ views the index_html for that folder and I can't get to the real manage thing without logging in again. I would suspect I'd been logged out (cookie timeout) but why would it view the page instead of asking me for auth (which would fail anyway)? Is there any way to make authorisation failures redirect to the userDB docLogin page instead of bringing up the password window? Anyway... Enough about UserDB for now. My other question has to do with proxy roles... I was trying to set up a counter, and the suggestion of: <dtml-call "manage_changeProperties({'counter': counter + 1})"> works perfectly, but only if I set the proxy role of manager for my INDEX_HTML page that includes the counter through: <dtml-var add_counter> setting the proxy role on the add_counter method does NOTHING it still wants authorisation. (Index html is a method as well) And I was wondering if this was part of the security layout and was the way it was meant to work this way or not. It seems kinda bad having to give my main page management privs. Thanks everyone for your help... The other Evan. -- Evan ~ThunderFoot~ Gibson ~ nihil mutatem, omni deletum ~ May the machines watch over you with loving grace.

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Correction - Re: [Zope] DTML equiv of eval (again).
by chas 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

Aaaaaah, just took a shower and everything suddenly went 'click'. _[] contains the objects so that's why _['x.y'] refers to a single object This makes sense. Then <dtml-var expr="expression"> or <dtml-var "expression"> really DOES do just an eval, and so it can work out that <dtml-var "x.y"> is the folder and then the object/method (although I think this is still a bit screwy) I was reading Evan's post but just not really understanding the significance. Stylin' chas

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Re: [Zope] Render DTML Document title inside another DTML Document in parent folder
by Ping Lau 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

Chas, Thanks. It works. Now I want to generalize it. I will create more folders inside FolderA and FolderB. Each newly created folder will contain at least one DTML Document that calls Doc1. Thus Doc1 has to determine which Doc from which folder dynamically. The goal is to use make Doc1 uses its own properties to render common results & uses caller's properties to render specific results. Any idea how to do that? Thanks. Regards, Ping >>>> Chas wrote: <dtml-with "FolderB.FolderC.Doc2"> <dtml-var title> </dtml-with> or <dtml-var "FolderB.FolderC.Doc2.title"> >>>> Ping wrote: Is there a way to reference a DTML Document's title in the folder 2-level deep from another DTML Document in the parent folder? The hierarchy looks like this: FolderA Doc1 FolderB FolderC Doc2 FolderA contains DTML Document Doc1 & FolderB. FolderB contains FolderC. FolderC contains DTML Document Doc2. Doc1 is called from Doc2 using <dtml-var Doc1> In Doc1, I want to display Doc2's title. I tried <dtml-var title>. But it rendered Doc1's title instead of Doc2's title. How can I render Doc2's title? Regards, Ping

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RE: [Zope] 2.01 will not run on NT4
by Michael Simcich 03 Oct '99

03 Oct '99

Hi Jim - I got it working now. I didn't have it running as a service, but from a shortcut on the desktop that pointed to the real start.bat. Thinking it was a typical shortcut generated command prompt window I was closing it after seeing it produce it's startup messages. This was apparently closing Zope... I've never seen a window need to stay open like this before so just followed my nose. Something should be added to the install notes about this. Is there a place I could suggest this? Thanks to everyone for helping out. Michael Simcich AccessTools -----Original Message----- From: Jim Sanford [mailto:jsanford@atinucleus.com] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 10:55 AM To: Michael Simcich Subject: Re: [Zope] 2.01 will not run on NT4 Don't know if localhost works elsewhere, never tried it. We set this machine up strictly to be an SSL front end to Zope. The data we have to access for our project is in Visual FoxPro tables so we had to use a windows machine for the ODBC connectivity with ZODBCA. I rarely access zope on the machine from the machine. It is sitting in our server room upstairs across the parking lot with a 100mbit connection to the database server and the router attached to our T1. When in the office I access it across the network and at home (where I do most of my programming) I access it via a dialup directly to the router. We do not run Zope 2 as an NT service. We had problems (the exact nature of which I don't currently remember) running it as an NT service so we just run it as a regular program that sits down on the task bar. That is all this machine does - runs IIS 4.0 with SSL solely accessing Zope via zope.pcgi. The default.htm for IIS takes you right to the top index_html for Zope which immediately makes you log in. If you fail login you are redirected to our public website which is on another machine (which is contolled by the marketing department) Zope is installed in a directory under Program Files (not under Inetpub). The zope.pcgi file is installed in the IIS wwwroot\scripts directory. __________________________________________________________________ Jim Sanford ^ Database Engineer ^ ^ ^ Accelerated Technology, Inc. ^ ^ 720 Oak Circle Drive East ^ ^ ^ Mobile, AL 36609 ^ ^ ^ Voice: 334-661-5770 fax: 334-661-5788 ^ ^ E-Mail: jsanford(a)atinucleus.com Web: http://www.atinucleus.com Source Code, No Royalties, Any CPU...It just make sense ! __________________________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Michael Simcich <msimcich(a)accesstools.com> To: 'Jim Sanford' <jsanford(a)atinucleus.com> Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 12:34 PM Subject: RE: [Zope] 2.01 will not run on NT4 Wow, this is really starting to spook me, I didn't think getting Zope to run was going to be such a big deal. Is the rest of the program this busted/cantankerous? I tried your suggestion but it came back with the same response - basically nothing is there. When you said that on your NT box localhost didn't work either do you mean that localhost doesn't work at all or only as a means to access Zope? On my rig localhost works fine, but adding the 8080: thing seems to mean nothing to it. Thanks Michael Simcich AccessTools -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Jim Sanford Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 9:34 AM To: Michael Simcich; zope(a)zope.org; Martijn Pieters Subject: Re: [Zope] 2.01 will not run on NT4 try http://123.456.789.123:8080/manage instead (where 123.456.789.123 is replace with the nT machine's ip address). My NT box doesn't seem to recognize localhost and this works for me. That would probably change if I created a hosts file in the system32 dir but since the other works I have never gotten around to it. Jim Sanford -----Original Message----- From: Martijn Pieters <mj(a)antraciet.nl> To: Michael Simcich <msimcich(a)accesstools.com>; zope(a)zope.org <zope(a)zope.org> Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] 2.01 will not run on NT4 At 16:15 30/09/99 , Michael Simcich wrote: >Hi all - > >Followed the install info for the lastest Zope release on NT. I ran >start.bat. However browsing to http://localhost:8080/manage gets me a "page >not found" message. > >Here is what start.bat got me: > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> >C:\ZopeSite>"C:\ZopeSite\bin\python.exe" "C:\ZopeSite\z2.py" -D >------ >1999-09-30T14:12:37 PROBLEM(100) ZServer Computing default hostname >------ >1999-09-30T14:12:37 INFO(0) ZServer Medusa (V1.10) started at Thu Sep 30 >07:12:37 1999 > Hostname: c147070-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com > Port:8080 > >------ >1999-09-30T14:12:37 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Thu Sep 30 >07:12:37 1999 > Authorizer:None > Hostname: gemini > Port: 8021 >------ >1999-09-30T14:12:37 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.5) started on port >8099 > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> > >The installed faq has the following: > >>>>>>>>>>>> > 1. After installing Zope, I go to the URL in my web browser > but I get a "404 Not Found" or "Server Error" message > > This message is coming from your web server, not Zope. > It usually means that your web server is misconfigured. > Ensure that the PCGI info file generated by the installation > procedure exists in a cgi-enabled directory, and that your > web server has any required aliases or configuration options > set to enable it to find this file and run it as a cgi program. > > Look in the error log for your web server for details of the error. > >>>>>>>>>>>> This is related to running Zope behind a seperate Web server, like IIS. >This would seem to contradict this from the install.txt: > >>>>>>>>>>>> > 5. Select Destination Directory where you want the software > installed. This should *NOT* be a directory that is published > by any existing web server software. > >>>>>>>>>>>> A seperate webserver connects to Zope via a small CGI script, so Zope itself doesn't need to be, and shouldn't be, in a published directory. However, a default install of Zope doesn't install itself to run behind a server, but to run behind ZServer. The output from start.bat indicates it is running fine. It seems you don't have any default content in your object database. Just add /manage to the URL, like so: http://localhost:8080/manage And you can start adding objects. The fact that no default content is provided is however a bug. If you want to have default content, see if the file Data.fs.in exists in the var subdir, and copy that to Data.fs (which is the objetc database file). -- Martijn Pieters, Web Developer | Antraciet http://www.antraciet.nl | Tel: +31-35-7502100 Fax: +31-35-7502111 | mailto:mj@antraciet.nl http://www.antraciet.nl/~mj | PGP: http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xA8A32149 ------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope (Related lists - please, no cross posts or HTML encoding! To receive general Zope announcements, see: http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce For developer-specific issues, zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope (Related lists - please, no cross posts or HTML encoding! 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Render DTML Document title inside another DTML Document in parent folder
by Ping Lau 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

Is there a way to reference a DTML Document's title in the folder 2-level deep from another DTML Document in the parent folder? The hierarchy looks like this: FolderA Doc1 FolderB FolderC Doc2 FolderA contains DTML Document Doc1 & FolderB. FolderB contains FolderC. FolderC contains DTML Document Doc2. Doc1 is called from Doc2 using <dtml-var Doc1> In Doc1, I want to display Doc2's title. I tried <dtml-var title>. But it rendered Doc1's title instead of Doc2's title. How can I render Doc2's title? Regards, Ping

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Midgard developers comment on Zope at DevShed
by Chris McDonough 02 Oct '99

02 Oct '99

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Midgard/ Title says it all...

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