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Re: [Zope] Newbie: How to make Apache Play Nice...
by Phil Harris 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

Also, and this is important! Don't forget to make sure that the cgi driectory holding Zope.cgi has ExecCGI turned on. As I said this is important, later versions of Apache don't turn it on by default. HTH Phil phil(a)philh.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Dangoor <tazzzzz(a)yahoo.com> To: <Christopher.Abraham(a)cio.treas.gov>; <zope(a)zope.org> Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 3:47 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie: How to make Apache Play Nice... >---Christopher.Abraham(a)cio.treas.gov wrote: >> http://memes.org >> >> But neither my guru or I can get Apache >> to dance with Zope -- I am having all >> kinds of problems getting the admin page >> to work with me and my Login/PW is just >> not taking. > >You'll want to check out the doc/WEBSERVER.txt file under your Zope >directory. Make sure your running a recent enough version of Apache >and have mod_rewrite installed. Then, you need to configure rewrite >rules so that Apache will pass authentication info through to Zope. > >Kevin >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >_______________________________________________ >Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > >(For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, >zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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Zope install help needed: "Premature end of script header"
by Kevin Teague 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

I installed the Zope binary on a linux box, and everything went well. User authentication worked successfully with Apache using the 'REMOTE USER' environment variable. Then I tried to get ZMySQLDA to work, but I couldn't get the Zope Python install to find 'libmysqlclient'. I got a build of Python 1.5.1 to successfully import MySQL. So I decided to reinstall Zope from source, so that I could use my own Python. The source Zope built okay, but when I tried to start Zope through the web browser I got an "Internal Server Error" message from Apache, the error log said I had a "Premature end of script header". I've checked permission on the var dir and user authentication still seems to work fine. I couldn't figure out why I was getting the error, so I tried re-installing the binary distribution of Zope. No luck there either, I get the same "premature end of script header" error message. I've checked the Zope.cgi file, and it seems o.k. Does anyone have any idea why Zope.cgi is failing on me? Is there something I have to do to Apache or Zope if I've removed the Zope folder and then untarred and re-installed a new Zope? Don't know if this'll help, but this is what I get when I run Zope.cgi from the command line: Status: 500 Internal Server Error Bobo-Exception-File: lib/python/ZPublisher/Request.py Content-Type: text/html Bobo-Exception-Type: exceptions.KeyError Bobo-Exception-Value: SCRIPT_NAME Content-Length: 363 Bobo-Exception-Line: 167 <html> <head> <title>exceptions.KeyError</title> </head> <body> Sorry, an error occurred.<p>  </body> Kevin Teague Kevin(a)StudioInfo.com Temporary Nelson address: #6-560 Baker street Phone: 250-354-1845 * Dedicated Fax: 250-354-1890

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Re: [Zope] Parsing XML into/out of the database
by Tony McDonald 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

> Since the FAQ development has moved to zdp.zope.org my site is no longer > needed so I created a guest account with the following authentication > info: > Many thanks Pavlos - I saw that the Doc effort had moved to zdp.zope.org and is using structured text, and thought that it was a bit of an opportunity lost (no disrespect to the Zope Doc Effort of course) as I was amazed to see that the FAQ system you wrote was XML-based and hence easily extensible. > guest > bobo > > at URL http://www.gaaros.com:9673 > > You can visit it and see my approach to the problem. I should also include > the code of the external method that creates the Zope objects. (I believe > a couple of more zopistas asked me for source access so here is your > chance.) I have backed up Zope's DB so you can mess around as much as you > want. Thats excellent! - thanks a lot. I'll be snooping around later on once I get into work - I had looked at XMLConfig almost straight away, but had to put it to one side whilst I got to grips with Zope (and Python!) fundamentals. At least I've got somewhere to start from now... again many thanks for this, tone.

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Re: [Zope] IRC channel [no zope content]
by Simon Michael 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> writes: > Heck, identd is a trivial enough protocol. You can always just > write one in 2 lines of python which just returns "sod off" as the > username. :) Heh :) Thanks all, for the info.

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Re: [Zope] Newbie: How to make Apache Play Nice...
by Kevin Dangoor 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

---Christopher.Abraham(a)cio.treas.gov wrote: > http://memes.org > > But neither my guru or I can get Apache > to dance with Zope -- I am having all > kinds of problems getting the admin page > to work with me and my Login/PW is just > not taking. You'll want to check out the doc/WEBSERVER.txt file under your Zope directory. Make sure your running a recent enough version of Apache and have mod_rewrite installed. Then, you need to configure rewrite rules so that Apache will pass authentication info through to Zope. Kevin _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Tracebacks and feeling pretty dumb <g>
by Tom Jenkins 19 Mar '99

19 Mar '99

Hey folks, Boy I'm feeling mighty dumb, but I just now, after maybe 8 hours of zope stuff (late night after work), discovered where the tracebacks were hiding from me. I searched this list, but never actually saw where they were printed, I finally saw it in the Trinkets Tutorial which I'm sure I read earlier <sigh>. So just in case someone else is out there in the same boat as I was - the tracebacks are comments in the html error page. DOH! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tom Jenkins DevIS (http://www.devis.com) Y2K problem? The Mayans didn't have a millennium-2K problem! Eric S. Raymond at IPC7, on learning that the Mayan calendar takes 28 octillion years to wrap around

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Parsing XML into/out of the database
by Tony McDonald 18 Mar '99

18 Mar '99

Hi all, I have an application that consists of 140+ XML documents, roughly 100k bytes each that I want to be able to query (using XSL pattern matching at present) and output to XML/HTML and RTF format. This will happen in real time (if at all possible). At the moment, my XML documents are held as files in a real file system (sacrilige! :). However, I'd like to get them into the database structure if at all possible, as I imagine it will make things easier in terms of searching. For example, the XML file <?xml version="1.0"?> <document title="Cell Biology"> <topic title="introduction" id="cb1"> Cell Biology is a good thing. If it weren't for Cell Biology, you wouldn't be around. </topic> <topic title="lectures" id="cb2"> <topic title="lecture" id="cb2" num="1"> This is lecture 1. </topic> <topic title="lecture" id="cb3" num="2"> This is lecture 2. </topic> <topic title="reading list" id="cb4"> <topic title="bok" id="cb5"> A big bok </topic> </topic> </topic> Would lend itself to creation in the Zope database really easily (I think). XML elements (document, topic) and attributes such as id (used to uniquely identify an element) and title would be properties of the DTML document/method. So long as the id numbers were properly arranged, it should be *relatively* (good word that!) simple to recreate the original XML document. I assume that parsing the XML (in actual fact, the DTML doc/method would consist of *very little* XML I think, it all being taken care of in properties) to create HTML would be, again, relatively easy (my own tendency is to use the 'title' attribute as a class identifier for cascading style sheets). My question is, do people think that this idea could fly? I have spent *a long time* looking at how to get our Word (sorry for saying that!) documents into a format that means they can be easily put into a database and thereby benefit from all the good things that means. Several cul-de-sacs and wasted weekends later, it seems to me that Zope is coming out to be the closest thing to a solution for my problem... (I know from off-list discussions that there's a definite 'weirdness' about how people have been wanting/needing to implement things and then finding that (a) Zope does it already, (b) there's a product available or (c) someones working on it... !). any thoughts, as usual, greatly appreciated. tone.

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Newbie: How to make Apache Play Nice...
by Christopher.Abraham＠cio.treas.gov 18 Mar '99

18 Mar '99

Hi. Here's the required History: Cold Fusion almost then found PHP3 and now ZOPE. I am running a P100 RH5.2 Apache 1.3, Kernel 2.0.36 and I am pretty sure I have Zope running: http://memes.org But neither my guru or I can get Apache to dance with Zope -- I am having all kinds of problems getting the admin page to work with me and my Login/PW is just not taking. My guru cannot even get it going and suggests using the Python server -- but I shall not be dashed -- any more info you need, I will give you a wee bit more: Want to use MySQL and will be developing a Writer's site -- for my fun and no profit, currently at: http://coelaboration.com -- I want to publish Hyperfiction and Hypertext using Zope as opposed to Perl or flatstatic... Cheers in advance... Chris

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Re: [Zope] Newbie install help needed !!!!!
by Jim Harris 18 Mar '99

18 Mar '99

Hope you don't mind me butting in, but if you just want to check out Zope very quickly, run the Windows version on 95/98/NT. It was nothing to install, and I was playing with Zope two minutes after downloading it. Python is also a snap to insall on Windows. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Schruefer <tschruefer(a)mail.howard.k12.md.us> To: Zope <zope(a)zope.org> Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 10:09 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie install help needed !!!!! > > >>Robert OConnor - rocon(a)pivot.net on 3/18/99 8:13 AM wrote: > >>Hi Thomas, >> > >>***This is were you got stuck*** >> >>./install >> >>***No switches!!! >> > >Ok, unstuck, whoops, stuck again. > >I guess I have to do this in little baby steps. Some sort of initiation >ritual, I think. ;-) Now I am getting the error message below even >though python is clearly in the bin directory under the Zope install >directory. > >"./install: bin/python: No such file or directory" > >This is the shell install script: > > >*** >#!/bin/sh > ># Get script dir >if [ -n "`echo $0|sed -e 's%[^/]%%'`" ]; then > PYTHONHOME=`echo $0 | sed -e 's%/[a-z.]*$%%'` > cd $PYTHONHOME >else > PYTHONHOME=. >fi > >export PYTHONHOME >bin/python inst/product_install.py $* >*** > >A little different than the PERL I am used to seeing, but I've managed to >make heads-and-tails of the thing. > > >- I checked the location of python in the Zope install dir, ok. >- I checked to ensure that the sh shell was in the bin/ dir, ok. > > >Next up, re-upload the Zope file and check for a corrupted archive. > > >Any other ideas ? > >_______________________________________________ >Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > >(For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, >zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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Re: [Zope] Newbie install help needed !!!!!
by Thomas Schruefer 18 Mar '99

18 Mar '99

>Robert OConnor - rocon(a)pivot.net on 3/18/99 8:13 AM wrote: >Hi Thomas, > >***This is were you got stuck*** > >./install > >***No switches!!! > Ok, unstuck, whoops, stuck again. I guess I have to do this in little baby steps. Some sort of initiation ritual, I think. ;-) Now I am getting the error message below even though python is clearly in the bin directory under the Zope install directory. "./install: bin/python: No such file or directory" This is the shell install script: *** #!/bin/sh # Get script dir if [ -n "`echo $0|sed -e 's%[^/]%%'`" ]; then PYTHONHOME=`echo $0 | sed -e 's%/[a-z.]*$%%'` cd $PYTHONHOME else PYTHONHOME=. fi export PYTHONHOME bin/python inst/product_install.py $* *** A little different than the PERL I am used to seeing, but I've managed to make heads-and-tails of the thing. - I checked the location of python in the Zope install dir, ok. - I checked to ensure that the sh shell was in the bin/ dir, ok. Next up, re-upload the Zope file and check for a corrupted archive. Any other ideas ?

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