August 2002 - Zope - Zope lists

backups
by Dennis Allison 07 Aug '02

07 Aug '02

Clearly there are various levels of backup. I am planning to do an off-site backup of Data.fs on a regular basis and a tarball of the site as configure whenever I modify the configuration. What procedures do others use?

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Apache Rewrite w/o VHM
by Jim Kutter 07 Aug '02

07 Aug '02

Almost NOBODY seems to cover this little problem I'm having. I have a massive site, that must be migrated picemeal to zope. I would like to create virtual urls that pass into zope. I do not want to use virtual host in apache, nor do I want to use proxypass because of problems I've ran into with that. example www.mysite.com -> served by apache www.mysite.com/section_in_zope -> served by zope www.mysite.com/other_section_in_zope -> served by zope if I setup a proxypass so that /section_in_zope/ goes to www.mysite.com:8080/section_in_zope (which works), all my links (file.html) now go to www.mysite.com:8080/section_in_zope/file.html. So i set a siteroot for section_in_zope, with base http://www.mysite.com/section_in_zope/ and base /section_in_zope/. The problem with that is now the link file.html goes to http://www.mysite.com/section_in_zope/section_in_zope/file.html and it grows with each new link. So basically I suspect rewrite will be my answer. How would I go about setting up both apache and zope to do that? -jim

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Zope Community Awards: 2 and bit days left
by Zopista 07 Aug '02

07 Aug '02

C'mon if you havent already voted, do so for your favourite Zope Community features. Its a chance to reward your favourite Product authors and even the peope who answer your emails on this list. http://www.zopezen.org/Awards/vote Winners will be announced on Friday. -- Andy McKay @gmweb Consulting http://www.agmweb.ca

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RE: [Zope] Zope Troubleshooting Tip (learn from my mistake)
by Schmidt, Allen J. 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Thank you! Thanks you! Thank you! Another big plug for the open source community! This is exactly the problem we were having and pounded our heads over it...and it is really so simple when you think about how Zope works! How can one block that out so easily?? But I guess life is like that...the simple things sometimes are staring you right in the face. Thanks BZ!!! -Allen -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin(a)zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of BZ Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 6:28 AM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope] Zope Troubleshooting Tip (learn from my mistake) So I was trying to get ZUBB to work (yes, I am the person maintaining the code as well) and for some reason I could not post to this one board I had installed in a virtual host/cmf. I created another board and nothing would post. I checked permissions, locations, everything and it would not post. After hours of playing with it and getting quite frustrated I remembered a problem I once had with names so I searched my installation for "post" but got back nothing but the two post methods in my first and test boards. And then I saw it. Sitting right there in the root directory. A folder named "submit". I renamed it "submit_old" and lo and behold I could post again. The problem was that I was checking for "submit" in my post method and it was picking up on the directory name (OO and all that goodness). TIP: The lesson learned is: When troubleshooting something in Zope make sure you are not calling a method or variable that has the same name as another method / variable / object in your folder paths. Use the find feature and take a look around. Cheers, BZ _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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Re: [Zope-dev] passing variable between zope and asp
by felix＠chaptereight.com 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Hi Faye Have you thought about: - using HTTP POST rather than stuffing it in the url? - XML-RPC For both the above, running it over HTTPS would be more secure obviously. If both sites are running on the same server, you might be able to do something locally, either using the local filesystem, or again over HTTP to localhost. Felix. P.S. I've CCd the zope users mailing list - I think it's probably more suited to this question. On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:44:38AM -0400, Faye Chiao wrote: > Hello, > We are trying to pass a string between two websites, from one developed with > Zope, to the other written in html/asp. Would you have any suggestions as > to how we might do this? We have considered stuffing the data into the url > string, but are wondering if there is an alternate, perhaps more secure > method.

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Re: Zope in intranet - the cool apps?
by Simon Michael 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

"Robert Rottermann" <robert(a)redcor.ch> writes: > My bigest problem with ZWiki was to understand the ingenius ways you use > dtml, setting values in the request and recalling the same page ... Thank you. :) Actually I have found that to be a useful pattern and use it a lot. It means the form is encapsulated in one (dtml-enabled) zwiki page, which I find more convenient to edit and maintain than having a pythonscript handler. Here's some examples - http://zwiki.org/ZwikiAnalyzer http://zwiki.org/UserOptions http://zwiki.org/ZwikiAndExUserFolder http://zwiki.org/SearchPage I hope details of how some particular pages do their thing doesn't deter coders from getting into zwiki hacking. Their DTML isn't pretty - it was the simplest thing that worked - but it's localized. They can be cleaned up any time someone gets the itch. -Simon

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Using Classes in Python scripts
by Andreas Tille 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Hi, I just want to hold some data structures in the session data. The application I want to write gatheres data from a database according to several options which can be set in a several step menu system. I have to keep track to the options. After reading /Examples/ShoppingCart of the Zope hierarchy I tried to adopt this scheme of data tagged by keys in the session data but I found out that I lost overview about this stuff if I would dive deeper into the data structure I would need. I thought I would find the solution in defining my own class variables and found out that this is not possible in Python scripts for security reasons. Next I tried External Python methods but I've got strange effects with this approach and I think it would not work as well. I thought I would find the solution at http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/991933953 but I just got an error right in the first line of the example code: Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: ImportError Error Value: import of "Products.PythonScripts.Utility" is unauthorized So I have two questions: 1. Is this the right approach to accumulate several data in the session variable even if there is a more complex menu structure of options which are sometimes dependand one from some others. 2. If yes what is the best way to get this working. Kind regards Andreas.

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<StringField instance at 018FEFA0>
by 3205 5361 1215 9784 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Hello zope, i get this error with the Formulator product, but perhaps it's not product specific, and i'm doing something wrong in zope. i have a stringfield, with the default in TALES tab set to "python:form.cpu_type" tipus is a variable to be acquired... in my dtml i say: <dtml-let type="'Intel Pentium 4'"> and it renders this in the input field: "<StringField instance at 018FEFA0>" whats this? how can i get the value of my variable? thanks, k. -- don't believe everything you think

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URLs and /
by DA Loeffler 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

I have been experiencing a problem with relative URLs. If I have a folder 'myFolder' and the user enters the address [mysite]/myFolder, they are automatically redirected to [mysite]/myFolder/index_html, but their browser does not realise this. So if I have a relative link in the page <a href="somefile"> which is intended to point at /myFolder/somefile, the browser, thinking it is reading a _file_ called 'myFolder' in the root folder, then requests /somefile, not /myFolder/somefile, and Zope quite rightly replies that it doesn't exist. How do I get round this one? For ordinary links it can be fixed with a <base> tag whose href is set to absolute_url(), but this isn't respected by JavaScript window.location.href="" statements. The only solution I have found so far is for index_html to do a RESPONSE.redirect to a different file, whose URL is then right, but this is grungy. Does anyone have any better ideas? David

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<dtml..> show dynamic page
by HT 06 Aug '02

06 Aug '02

Hi, I have problem understanding thte DTML document and hope some expert help. examples: The code below is found in my index_html basically this index_html is wrapping 3 more documents which are listed below in dtml-var. This is fine and works well. But please look at 2nd example: 1st example: --------------------- <dtml-var standard_html_header> <dtml-var my_content_page> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> ----------------- 2nd example of dynamicpage document --------------------- <dtml-var standard_html_header> <dtml-var pg> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> ----------------- The <dtml-var pg> contain dynamic pg variable. At the present moment, I don't know what page, the user is selecting. Assume, the user select: http://myzope/dynamicpage?pg=userinfo If I use the 2nd example, the <dtml-var pg> resolve the page as a String instead of as document. How to solve this?

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