July 2002 - Zope - Zope lists

Standard error message - when host / folder need authentication
by Heimo Laukkanen 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

Hi, I've been strugling with error messages on sites that need authentication. I am running Zope 2.5.1 with python 2.1.3. Setup is following Zope root +-------- virtualhost one +-------- virtualhost two + +----------subdirectory +-------- virtualhost three Virtualhost one is allowed for anonymous browsing and standard error message work well there. No problem. Virtual host two's main directory is allowed, but subdirectory requires authentication. Error messages work in the main directory, but in subdirectory I get error message like below. Virtual host three requires authentication. Error messages do not work. I get error message like below. If I create standard_error_message and give access for anonymous user, it seems that on the place of the second ( indented ) error message is shown that message. Is there a way to get these error messages to work with sites that require authentication? Site Error An error was encountered while publishing this resource. NotFound Site Error An error was encountered while publishing this resource. Resource not found -huima

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Zope/Python - DBF files
by Blaise Laflamme 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

Hi all, I have to read/write dbf files from a Zope application until all the data will be move to a database like MySQL. Anyone know a module or a library I can wrap to do the work? Thanks in advance. Blaise Laflamme

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Suggestions on getting proper URL in ZPT?
by Alec Munro 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

Hi all, I've got a few page templates that need to contain references to Python scripts that are in parallel directories to them. How can I make this work so that no matter where the page template is used, it is always able to call the Python script? One way I thought of was simply obtaining the url of the page template, relative to the server root, and working from there. But I don't know how to find the URL of the page template. Any sort of suggestions would be appreciated. Alec Munro

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wake up zope objects
by Hamzat Kamal 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

Hi, I wanted to know if tal:repeat wake-up all objects in a container as <dtml-in> does. Thanks. ===== Hamzat kamaldeen Ishola Dnet Systems Limited. 223 Ikorodu Road, Lagos. Nigeria. 234 1 7749381, 234 08033011305 --- Making Mistake is not a problem but readiness to admit it. Sentimental decisions are not mistakes but failures !!! Mistake is an opportunity to see better !!! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com

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Objects transfer
by Алексей Колчин 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

Hello! I have two computers with ZOPE. I want to copy some ZODB-objects from one computer to another simultaneously, without manual copying of all key-values. Can I do it, and how? Alexey

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Page template, acquisition and friends ...
by Nicolas Évrard 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

Hello everyone, This is my first post to this mailing-list, and I wish to say that I find Zope incredibly usefull ... it makes me do my very first website. Any way, I've got a python module which parse a file containing recipes, I asume I'll write an ExternalMethod that will take an argument and return a structire (a dictionnary) with all the relevant informations. I did a small page template that show all these informations. What I want to do is to show the recipe by calling this url : GetRecipe/My Recipe/show_recipe.zpt (I suppose I'll have to encode the space too). is this possible ?? I tried with a python script (returning a dictionnary) but it did not work ... BTW : I suppose I can do something like <span tal:define="recipe python:here.GetRecipe('My Recipe')"> <p tal:content="recipe/yield>yield</p> ... </span> But I find it not elegant ... and it wouldn't generate easyly the list of all the recipe ... Happy pythoning, happy zoping ... -- (°> Nicolas Évrard / ) Liège - Belgique ^^

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LocalFS Ques
by Aseem Mohanty 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

Hi, If I have a localFS instance that points to a directory, and I manually add a folder to the said dir, it shows up in the listing for the localFS, however when I try access it via a PyScript it gives a notFound error. The fileValues function returns a list of file objects so even if I have added a Folder type object(via ZMI) to the LocalFS it is returned as a LocalFile object. If I add it manually, it doesnt even return it. Why does it behave like that?? Is there any fix?? Also is there any alternative to using LocalFS (that would let me access a local file system)?? TIA AM -- ================================================================== Aseem Mohanty Neurobehavioral Systems Inc, 828 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706 (R) 510 7696011 (M) 510 3014871 (O) 510 5279231 ================================================================== "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there!!" -- Steve Gonedes ==================================================================

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Making Zope auto-start on Mandrake 8.2
by working4aliving 01 Aug '02

01 Aug '02

I'm a newbie looking for this info. I tried to add /usr/local/zope/start at the end of rc.local, but it just sits there (and doesn't exit processing rc.local). I know this is probably more of a mandrake / linux question, but maybe not. thanx in advance.

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VirtualHostMonster and acquisition
by Charlie Reiman 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

Is it possible for VHM to screw up my acquisition? I've got a python script called kt_trans. It access a TinyTable from a directory above itself, through a PortableHole. This all works fine when directly accessed, and works under one VHM test setup. But the production system can't find the TinyTable when acccessed via the proxy feeding to VHM. I know that's confusing, so let me further muddy things up by give you details. I have a set up like this /clients/one/trans_table /clients/one/reports -> portable hole to /reports /clients/two/trans_table /clients/two/reports -> portable hole to /reports /reports/kt_trans -> python script that accesses context.trans_table The use of context.trans_table works in kt_trans when I access it via: /clients/one/reports/kt_trans It will access client one's trans_table in this case. All well and good and it works fine when directly accessed. However, when accessed via an apache proxy feeding VHM style URLs, I can't access my trans_tables. Other zope objects are accessable without a hitch. Most annoying of all, this only seems to happen under production which means I've got to fight with firewalls and SSL. My attempts to replicate the problem have not been successful. Help! I need a clue stick!

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compacting growing database
by Courtland Idstrom 31 Jul '02

31 Jul '02

Hi - I'm managing a Zope installation where my documents are imported from a script I wrote. Every time I run the script and it updates the documents, the database gets larger and larger, which I understand. Unfortunately, when I go to compact the database, it actually expands by about 5 Mb. I'm using Zope Version (Zope 2.5.1 (source release, python 2.1, linux2), python 2.1.1, linux2) Python Version 2.1.1 (#1, Jun 10 2002, 11:11:21) [GCC 3.1] Please help, my database is up to 250 Megs, and I only have about 300 html documents in it! Thanks -Court

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