March 1999 - Zope - Zope lists

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by Phil Harris 29 Mar '99

29 Mar '99

Hi all, I'm using Zope 1.10 with IIS 4.0 on an NT box. All is working well, I just have one small query which is slightly off topic, maybe. The URL for Zope is 'http://localhost/scripts/z.exe' and I would like it to be 'http://localhost/z/', I know that with Apache I could do a rewrite and this works great with Apache, but does anyone know how I would do something similar with IIS. TIA Phil Harris Mail Phil(a)philh.org IRC Efnet #Zope #PHP WWW www.philh.org

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Automatically creating instances for each user?
by Martin Dougiamas 29 Mar '99

29 Mar '99

Hi, I'm new to Zope, but I'm eagerly learning it. I like the paradigm - it seems to fit the way I think. This is my first post here. I've hit a snag, and I'm hoping someone more experienced can point me in the best direction. I'm developing an application that needs user-modifiable pages. I already have a Zope form where the user can edit text properties of an object, and another page that displays those properties as HTML. My problem is, I want each authenticated user to be editing their own instance of this object, and I also want the URL to be the same for each user. eg fred sees http://host/mypage as fred's editable page mary sees http://host/mypage as mary's editable page What is the best approach I should take to achieve this in DTML? Cheers, Martin -- ### Martin Dougiamas -- Internet Agent is == i see ### Centre for Educational Advancement ### Curtin University of Technology ### http://cea.curtin.edu/staff/martin

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external databases
by Tom Deprez 29 Mar '99

29 Mar '99

Hi again, I've a Postgress database with some data I want to use with Zope. So I've to install an external driver. Is it so that I've to recompile Zope? This means that I've to download the source and not the binaries of Zope, like I did... Isn't there a simpler way? Because when I need to recompile, I've do download also all the correct libraries of each program... sghh. Please, let there be a simpler method. Thanks in advance. Tom.

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examples
by Tom Deprez 29 Mar '99

29 Mar '99

Hi, Can you send me an url where I can see your work? So I can get the idea (especially database related) what is possible with Zope. TIA Tom.

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Usernames in ZopeHTTP logs
by Martin Dougiamas 29 Mar '99

29 Mar '99

I found Zope's HTTP logs at: ...zope/var/server.errors which is what I need to monitor the server, but they don't appear to be including usernames (just a '-' in that field). How can I turn logging of usernames on? Cheers, Martin -- ### Martin Dougiamas -- Internet Agent ### Centre for Educational Advancement is == i see ### http://cea.curtin.edu/staff/martin

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installing Zope
by Tom Deprez 29 Mar '99

29 Mar '99

Hi all, Well, now I don't understand it anymore.... Just back from the weekend (where on Friday I had these installation problems) Now went to the Zope directory and what did I saw? The 'Start' and 'Stop'. I wrote ./Start and then surfed to the correct address and it works! Why did'nt it worked on Friday? The whole weekend searching for a solution and then it appears it isn't needed... (almost) But, still I would like to work with Apache... Why? Because I've heard it's the best in web-servers... (I don't know it's through, but I believe it) Or is the comming ZServer better? Now, I believe I have to recompile apache again to make it ready for Zope, isn't it? I thought I only had to put it in one of the configuration files, but instead you've to write that script in the ./configure file. Kind Regards, Tom.

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Zope info on postgresql.org
by Oleg Broytmann 27 Mar '99

27 Mar '99

Hello! I am creating a record on Zope on postgresql.org: http://www.postgresql.org/software/detail.cgi?oid=3440544 I need a short informative description on Zope. Something like "Zope is opensource web application platform - software complex for creating highly dynamic web-sites". What is contact e-mail? I wrote zope(a)zope.org. Shouldn't it be info(a)digicool.com? Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann National Research Surgery Centre http://sun.med.ru/~phd/ Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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installing Zope
by Tom Deprez 27 Mar '99

27 Mar '99

Hi, Thanks to all the reply I got for my question PHP3 or Zope. I'm wanting to give it a try, but .... I've RedHat 5.2 installed with running Apache I'm trying to install Zope, but am expiering some problems : I've downloaded the binary and installed it into /usr/local/dc/Zope-1.10.2 installed it with ./install -sAdmin:Admin the var directory of Zope is permissioned for nobody (done by Zope) As in the manual, Zope created access with Admin:Admin, but it says login with Zope:Admin copied the Zope.cgi to the directory /home/httpd/cgi-bin I want to use it with Apache so I had something to change in the conf file of Apache... Apache has 3 conf files. At the moment it is written in all 3 of the files (because none of them work!). This is the piece of script I've written : (from WEBSERVER.txt) #Zope configuration maps /Zopz/ to the Zope.cgi CGI script RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.*) RewriteRule ^/Zope/(.*) /home/httpd/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/$1 [e=HTTP-CGI-AUTHORIZATION:%1, t=application/x-httpd-cgi,l)] When trying to browse to http://localhost/cgi-bin/manage I get the password dialog... I enter Admin , Admin and am refused (same with Zope, Admin) .... What am I doing wrong????? -------------------------------------- Now try to use ZopeHTTPServer I can't find anywhere the file serve.sh BUT I tried to start it with start then going to webbrowser http://localhost:9673/manage I get a message of DNS problem etc... So not even a question of password... ---------------- Can somebody tell me what I've done wrong? I want to get it to work with Apache... What do I've to do? Thanks in advance, Tom.

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Method icons
by Jim Fulton 26 Mar '99

26 Mar '99

Hi all. Here's a minor issue I'd like to get some opinions on. There are some ideas in Zope that cross object types in Zope, like folders, methods, and content. We reinforce the idea of folders by giving folders icons derived from folder icons. I'd like to do the same thing for methods. The basic idea is that there should be some basic icon that indicates that something is a method. It should be possible to decorate the icon to indicate a particular type of method, such as adding angle brackets for DTML or adding a table grid for SQL, or OO (or glasses ;) for Python. Note that one complication is that the image should fit in a 16x16 icon. I've put some ideas at: http://www.zope.org/methodIcons I'm curious what folks think of these and whether anyone has any better ideas. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@digicool.com Python Powered! Technical Director (888) 344-4332 http://www.python.org Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com http://www.zope.org Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(b)(1)(C), Sec.227(a)(2)(B) This email address may not be added to any commercial mail list with out my permission. Violation of my privacy with advertising or SPAM will result in a suit for a MINIMUM of $500 damages/incident, $1500 for repeats.

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ANNOUNCE: Counter1.0
by Shaw, Howard 26 Mar '99

26 Mar '99

Ok, I've updated the package to remove the bug that killed it after the first shutdown/cache loss. The _v_ technique certainly served to prevent the saving of the variable, so when the system came back up, before I use the _v_ variable I was testing it to make sure it was higher than the stored value. I added a test to make certain that it exists... Is there a way to register a function (or some __func__) that gets called the the instance is reloaded? It seems fairly stable now, so I'm calling this 1.0. Please send bug reports to shawh(a)sths.org. BTW, has anyone actually tested this other than me? I thought from the comments I had read on the list that there were a fair number of people who were perturbed at the lack of a counter in Zope. Was I wrong? Am I flogging a dead horse here? <<Counter1.0.tar>> Howard C. Shaw III Programmer/SysAdmin St. Thomas High School

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