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RE: [Zope] Two Questions: One Easy, One Not
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 10 May '01

10 May '01

Your zope installation can be put where you decide you want to put it. You can even just decide, if you feel so inclined to just run it as a normal user in your personal UNIX home directory. As long as file permissions are set up in a manner so that the user you have Zope running under has permissions to read and execute stuff in Zope's lib/ directory, and that there are permissions to write to files in Zope's var/ dir. Keep in mind that everything you put into Zope, for the most part, resides in the object database, which is a single file called data.fs, always open for reading and writing while Zope is started. Your Zope installtion has nothing to do with your Apache document root, and can be put anywhere on the file system (and inside the doc root is obviously not a good idea). You can then access Zope either directly with its builtin web server (ZServer), or use Apache via PCGI or mod_proxy (proxying to Zope's builtin web server) as a front end to Zope. Zope's ZServer has a built-in FTP server, and supports Web-DAV and XML-RPC through its web server. What you actually ftp to is not your UNIX filesystem, but the hierarchy of the Zope object database presented as a filesystem. As for getting images into a database, consider looking into a python script called "loadSite.py" - it loads a site hierarchy from a file system and puts it into the ODB: http://www.zope.org/Members/itamar/load_site Sean -----Original Message----- From: Ben Ocean [mailto:zope@thewebsons.com] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:01 AM To: Tino Wildenhain Cc: zope(a)zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Two Questions: One Easy, One Not At 05:13 PM 5/10/2001 +0200, you wrote: >IF you want to use your images from zope, you have to import >them into its database. You can do it via web-interface >or via FTP or (Web-)DAV (the latter works somewhat with >Internetexplorer Webfolder feature) So, clearly, I need to put my Zope installation on the doc root. For some reason (I presume security), I had put it below the doc root. Is security a concern? >2) Zope spawns serveral processes, thats normal. You find >their process-ids (at least the ones of the parents) in >var/Z2.pid Yeah, I noticed that. But why does the server quit serving and need to be restarted? How do I track this problem? Thanks, BenO _______________________________________________ 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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Create object inside newly created container?
by sean.upton＠uniontrib.com 10 May '01

10 May '01

Inside a python product, I have a class that subclasses OFS:Folder, and upon TTW instatiation of this object, I want to have a ZCatalog instance called 'Catalog' created within this new folder. Is the appropriate place to put code to do this within the class __init__() or within the module's manage_add...() method? What would one use to obtain the namespace of a newly created object after it is set in the ODB via _setObject()? I assume that after calling _setObject() in manage_add...(), that one could traverse into the namespace of that object, and call manage_addProduct['ZCatalog'].manage_addZCatalog()... Any thoughts? Sean ========================= Sean Upton Senior Programmer/Analyst SignOnSanDiego.com The San Diego Union-Tribune 619.718.5241 sean.upton(a)uniontrib.com =========================

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Two Questions: One Easy, One Not
by Ben Ocean 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi; The easy question: I have all sorts of images on my server that I want to copy into the appropriate folder in my Zope installation so that they can appear on the site that I am building with Zope. Trouble is, I can't find the folder, even when I walk the directory tree. Where does Zope put the folders I create and what does it call them? Is it possible to do what I want to do? The not-so-easy question: For some reason my Zope server dies regularly. I have root access on my RH6.2 box. When I run a process table, it appears that Zope is spawning several processes. In reality, if I try to kill the processes, I find that they're not active (nothing to kill). However, when Zope dies, all the *processes* die with it. I'm no programming guru, so any suggestions would be appreciated! TIA, BenO

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Security Problems?
by Phil Harris 10 May '01

10 May '01

All, I've got a sneaking suspicion that there are some security problems in Zope 2.3.x. I've been trying to make a simple testcase and would like other (better) minds than mine to look at it. I have an external method which looks like: class c: def __init__(self,a): self.score=a self.test=a*a def t(self): retval=[] for a in range(1,10): retval.append(c(a)) return retval The class 'c' is a very simple class, it has no methods and only two attributes/properties 'score' and 'test'. The external method 't' is also very simple, it just returns an array of class 'c'. The dtml-method I'm using to access this array is as follows: <dtml-var standard_html_header> <dtml-in t> <dtml-var "_['sequence-item'].score"> </dtml-in> <dtml-var standard_html_footer> Nothing earth shattering there either. BUT, I get an unauthorized error raised with this traceback whenever I run this dtml-method: (note that a authentication login box is presented but NO user name is able to authenticate) Traceback (innermost last): File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 223, in publish_module File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 187, in publish File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 171, in publish File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\ZPublisher\mapply.py, line 160, in mapply (Object: index_html) File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 112, in call_object (Object: index_html) File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\OFS\DTMLMethod.py, line 189, in __call__ (Object: index_html) File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_String.py, line 538, in __call__ (Object: index_html) File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_In.py, line 717, in renderwob (Object: t) File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_Util.py, line 334, in eval (Object: _['sequence-item'].score) (Info: _) File <string>, line 0, in ? File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_Util.py, line 140, in careful_getattr File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\OFS\DTMLMethod.py, line 261, in validate (Object: index_html) File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\AccessControl\SecurityManager.py, line 144, in validate File D:\ZOPE_T~1\lib\python\AccessControl\ZopeSecurityPolicy.py, line 168, in validate Unauthorized: score All of this is run on a bog standard install of Zope 2.3.2 with no other products installed, no security changes done, REALLY bog standard. Anyone got any ideas? Cos this is doin my f'in ed in man?!?!?!?!?!? Phil phil.harris(a)zope.co.uk

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RE: [Zope] Newbie question: web logging
by Farrell, Troy 10 May '01

10 May '01

ZServer produces a logfile at ZOPE_HOME/var/Z2.log Troy -----Original Message----- From: Arian de Wit [mailto:adewit@niwa.cri.nz] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:47 AM To: zope(a)zope.org Subject: [Zope] Newbie question: web logging Hi All, Perhaps this is a silly question, but here it is anyway, since I couldn't readily find anything about it in the documentation. Is it possible to get ZServer to produce a web traffic log which we could then analyse in a similar fashion to standard http logs like those of Apache or IIS? Many thanks, Arian ------------------------------------------------------------------ Arian de Wit, MSc(Hons), i-Net+, MCSE Information Systems Integration Manager NIWA (National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research) Gate 10 Silverdale Road, Box 11-115, Hamilton, New Zealand Phone (+64) 7-856 1769 Fax (+64) 7-856 0151 Web http://www.niwa.cri.nz ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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] [OT] subject headings/clarification
by Anthony Baxter 10 May '01

10 May '01

>>> Simon Michael wrote > It looks as if you want to squelch this thread, but it would have been > nice to discuss this a little longer. We might have found out more > about what the current consensus is (we had 2 for & 2 against); why > people find it useful; who's decision it is one way or another; etc. There are many, many, many threads like this that come up from time to time on most internet mailing lists. No matter what you decide, some people will be unhappy. Unless there's an overwhelming majority in favour of change, leaving things as they are is usually the better bet. Aside from all that - if it really bugs you to see the list name in the subject line, tweak your mailer to hide them. (MH scan.format file left as an exercise for the reader :) Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <anthony(a)interlink.com.au> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

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Re: [Zope] Product event when zope restarts
by Oliver Bleutgen 10 May '01

10 May '01

>> Have you looked at the ExtFile object? >> >> cheers, >> >> Chris > Yes. As I wrote, the product BASICALLY does this. Actually it reads the > file, parses it and shows it's contents in the properties tab. When I > write > something like <dtml-var "myProduct.property1"> then I can access a part > of > the file. Can't you use os.path.getmtime('path_to_file') to get the modification time of the file and reparse and reinsert it only if getmtime >= old_getmtime? cheers, oliver

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Some mathematical problems ...
by Gitte Wange 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hello ... I don't know if I can explain it clear enough but here goes: I am trying to update to values in a database. The values are a priority number, used to sort a list by. My code looks like this: <dtml-call expr="sqlUpdateServerAbove(id=id, priority=priority+1, ServerNetid=ServerNetid, oldpriority=_.int(REQUEST.oldpriority)-1)"> The id-variable and the priority-variable comes from another sql-query and works just fine. The ServerNetid-variable and the oldpriority-variable are passed from a form. Now when this script is called it updates the record that comes from the other sql-query, but not the record that comes from the form (the best explanation I can come up with). So I guess it is because the oldpriority=_.int(REQUEST.oldpriority)-1) doesn't work. The values (before the <dtml-call>-statement is: id=1 priority=1 ServerNetid=2 oldpriority=2 When the script has been called the values are: id=1 priority=2 ServerNetid=2 priority=2 (and this should be 1) Anyone with a good idea ?? Regards, -- ************************ Gitte Wange Jensen System Squid Developer MMManager Aps +45 29 72 79 72 gitte(a)mmmanager.org ************************

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silly IE display question - manage screens showing 'view', not co ntents
by Meilicke, Scott 10 May '01

10 May '01

I'm using IE 5.5, win2k as a client, and when I enter a management screen, the right hand frame shows the 'view' of the object I select in the nav pane instead of the contents of that object. As a result, I cannot do much in zope. This works fine in netscape. Any thoughts on how to correct this? Thanks - Scott

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Batch-adding images with extra attribs
by Etienne Labuschagne 10 May '01

10 May '01

Hi there I have a lot of images that I must upload into Zope. I can probably use FTP, but I have another problem. I add a copyright attribute to each image. It would be great if I can tell Zope, upload all images in directory c:\foo and give them a copyright attribute of bar. I have access to the server on which Zope is running, so it will probably be the easiest to write an external Python method to do the uploading from the server's file system. My question is, how do I upload an image directly from disk into Zope? Thanks in advance. Etienne

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