November 2000 - Zope

newbie
by Max M. Stalnaker 05 Nov '00

05 Nov '00

I decided to devote the weekend to installing a web server on my win2k pro box and bringing a site up. I chose zope because I needed to have some database stuff and I know python. Zope seemed a good fit and it is advertised as simple to administrate. I have installed a few IIS sites for clients. I observe that you support win NT, but at this point, I am not sure if you support win2k? My problem is whenever I try to use to management console, as to add a directory named for my domain, to start out on the content developer tutorial, I get a message something like superuser cannot own object. Although I have tried a few things, at the moment my zope account is the Administrator, since that seems like a good superuser account. I claim I am logged in as another user on the win2k box, who is a member of the administrator group. Reading the Admistrative doc, this sounds a bit like the web server is not passing authetication information, but at the moment I claim I have only Zserver running. I had installed apache, but decided I did not need this and the doc suggested I needed to do a few extra steps to get started, and I only have a meg pipe anyway, so I stopped apache and let ZServer start as a systems process? I hope someone kind will shed some light on my difficulty.

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ZMySQLDA troubles
by Shelley Strik 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

This is my problem that I have been having. I am trying to install the database adapter from MYSQL to Zope. I downloaded the ZMySQLDA from the zope webpage. I then downloaded the Mysqldb from the zope web page. I installed both. It didn't work. After much trials and tribulations I found I didn't have the mysql librarys installed. I do now. I have work through a lot of errors and have found myself stuck at this one place. The error message that I am getting when I try to start Zope is 2000-11-04T16:18:14 ERROR(200) Zope Couldn't import Products.ZMySQLDA Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/opt/zope/lib/python/OFS/Application.py, line 39 7, in import_products (Object: string) File /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/opt/zope/lib/python/Products/ZMySQLDA/__init__. py, line 106, in ? File /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/opt/zope/lib/python/Products/ZMySQLDA/DA.py, li ne 108, in ? File /usr/share/zope/lib/python/Products/ZMySQLDA/db.py, line 106, in ? ImportError: /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/opt/zope/lib/python/_mysqlmodule.so: unde fined symbol: PyObject_Init I have tryed everything that I can think of and was hoping someone else might have had the same problem. If anyone can help me out it would be appreciated. I am running MySQL 3.22.32, Redhat Linux 5.2, Python 2.0 and Zope the latest version of Zope. Any suggest will be appreciated. Shelley Strik

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New kinds of problems
by MANUEL JOSE AMADOR BRIZ 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Thanks, here are my two cents: Mini quick howto to connect to a sybase ASA/ASE: Get any 2.2 linux distro installed, except red hat 7 (compiler problems, it WILL fail). GET from Sybase the RPMs called sybase-common and sybase-openclient, the latest versions. Install them. do a link from /opt/sybase to /opt/sybase- {currentversion} which should exist now. make sure you have $SYBASE set in your profile, to /opt/sybase. Download zope-2.2.2.src.tgz untar as root, then chown -R root.root /path/to/Zopefolder make sure you have python and python-devel RPMs or DEBs. cd to zope folder run \\\'python w_pcgi.py\\\' run \\\'python zpasswd.py access\\\', enter username, password, CLEARTEXT encoding and no domain get ZSybaseDAv2 b2 and place the targz file into the zope folder do a \\\'tar zxvmf ZSybaseDAv2.tar.gz0 in the zope folder Once more do a chown -R root.root * cd into lib/python/Products/ZSybaseDAv2/src cp Setup.linux or Setup.solaris to Setup make -f Makefile.pre.in boot make cd to the parent folder (cd ..) cp src/sy_occ.so . enter python and try to do \\\'import sy_occ\\\' if it works and doesn\\\'t spit errors, you\\\'re set. exit python and go to the zope folder, then run ./start if zope starts, you\\\'re all set now there is an executable called /opt/sybase/bin/dsedit that you will have to use to create network transports. Fill in the appropriate data. Now for the problems. I managed to connect to an ASA 7.0 database, and retrieved successfully a select * from systable, but can\\\'t execute stored procedures, it spits some kind of another operation on progress error or unknown data type returned error. I assume ASA and dsclient are talking incompatible protocols here. Can someone help me? By the way, the data source created with dsedit for our ASE server works fine. Everything runs OK. Please reply and CC: me because I\\\'m kinda lagged behind with the mailing list and I need a reply soon. Thanks. I hope these instructions help people in connecting to Sybase, given the poor support they have in some countries (I\\\'m thinking mine). Manuel ---------------------------------------------------------- Universidad Federico Santa Maria - Campus Guayaquil Enviado por: www.usm.edu.ec

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Re: [Zope] Id ZopeStudio Dead?
by Simon Michael 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Also, for windows try Zope Stud (products area). It's an alpha and doesn't do much but what's there works extremely well. It makes a nice wiki browser too.

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PHP and Zope
by Vincent - D. Ertner 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Hi Zopers, I learned PHP and now discovered Zope. So I'd like to put a simple question: What's the best way to incorporate the advantages of PHP and Zope? Should I focus on one and forget the other? Okay, these are two questions and I honestly doubt that anyone would suggest to drop Zope ;-))) Anyway: Please gimme some starting hints on my way to the perfect content managed web site! Thanx in advance! Cheers, Vince ''' ô¿ô -

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Local Time Zone
by Daniel Rusch 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

Hey all, I know I can get the users language preference like this: <dtml-var "REQUEST['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']"> The question then is, is there a similar method of getting the users Local Time Zone??? Thanks, Dan

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Manually inc. sequence.
by Jason C. Leach 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

hi, How do you manually move to the next item in a sequence? Also, how do you break one? j. ...................... ..... Jason C. Leach ... University College of the Cariboo. ..

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error in Zope book
by michael angelo ruberto 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

in chapter 5 the example Creating a File Library has an error in the sorting method. <dtml-var standard_html_header> <h1>File Library</h1> <table> <tr> <th><a href="&dtml-URL0;?sort=name">File</a></th> <th><a href="&dtml-URL0;?sort=date">Last Modified</a></th> </tr> <dtml-if expr="_.has_key('sort') and sort=='date'"> ---ERROR-------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- <dtml-in expr="objectValues('File')" ~this should be <dtml-in expr="PARENTS[0].objectValues(['File'])" ~it doesn't work otherwise. ---ERROR-------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- sort="bobobase_modification_time" reverse> <tr> <td><a href="&dtml-absolute_url;"><dtml-var title_or_id></a></td> <td><dtml-var bobobase_modification_time fmt="aCommon"><td> </tr> </dtml-in> <dtml-else> ---ERROR-------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- <dtml-in expr="objectValues('File')" sort="id"> ~same as above. ---ERROR-------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- <tr> <td><a href="&dtml-absolute_url;"><dtml-var title_or_id></a></td> <td><dtml-var bobobase_modification_time fmt="aCommon"><td> </tr> </dtml-in> </dtml-if> </table> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> -<mike>-

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Refrencing.
by Jason C. Leach 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

hi, if I do something like: <dtml-let x=sequence-item> What is the sintax to refrence that object? <img src=<dtml-var x.id> ? Thanks, j. ...................... ..... Jason C. Leach ... University College of the Cariboo. ..

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Securing an FTP server.
by Jason C. Leach 04 Nov '00

04 Nov '00

hi, I'd like to secure the FTP server so that when Bob loges in, he is sent to folder X and can not exit X. And when Jain loges in, she is put into Y and can not exit that folder. Is this possible. Someone once suggested working with site rules, but that's a bit hokey; unless someone has implemented an elagent solution like this. Thanks, j. ...................... ..... Jason C. Leach ... University College of the Cariboo. ..

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