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Q: Setting/Creating variables
by James A. Hillyerd 10 Mar '99

10 Mar '99

I have been playing around with Zope/ZPublisher/DocumentTemplate and have been extremely pleased with the ease of development, as well as the power of the Python language. Sometimes I have found myself wanting to save the results of an expression in my DTML code, for use later in the same page (or even an embedded DTML object). The only thing I have used that is similar to DTML is ColdFusion, which has a CFSET tag, ie: <cfset myvar = "test"> or <cfset total = subtotal * tax> In reading the docs, it looked like I might be able to do something along the lines of  but this didn't seem to work, and it's not very elegant either. Am I missing something? None of the howtos or tutorials seem to cover this. A  /  would be really spiffy. =) Please make sure you CC me if you respond to this message, as I had to unsubscribe due to the overwhelming amount of traffic. Thanks! -james [] James A. Hillyerd <jamesh(a)altavista.net> Java Developer [] HyperGlyphics: http://www.hyperglyphics.com/ [] GPG Public Key Fingerprint for 1024D/9F956CDE (Expires 2000-02-01): [] C86F B073 92DF 1E24 EF0B 0118 6061 0FEC 9F95 6CDE

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NT Server Question
by Luke Duff 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

I've gotten Zope up and running on my IIS/NT server. Right now I can access it through www.myserver.com/cgi-bin/zope.exe. Is there any tricky way to get it to run as www.myserver.com/zope? including www.myserver.com/zope/folder/object? Can you do that with Apache on NT? I would use ZServer but I need to also be able to run Perl CGI scripts. Luke Duff ------------------------------------------------------------ News, Opinion, Culture for Geeks -- http://www.geeklife.com

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Root Folders and Names {Manager's Guide Update}
by Robert OConnor 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

* How do I "name" the *blank* root folder? This is the same folder that is named "Plutonia" in the Zope manager's guide. Maybe the root folder has no name so that if I go to http://www.bob.com/ the "Folder at / " will present index_html to requesting browsers. If I did name it "plutonia" would it be accessible both as http://www.bob.com/ and as http://www.bob.com/plutonia ? So maybe I don't need to "name" this root folder. If so, then the Zope manager's guide needs to be clearer. In the fourth paragraph on page 12 it says: "...presuming that your ZOPE is installed at http://your.place.com/Objects and it's management screen is at http://your.place.com/Objects/manage" This does not follow through the document. There is no folder named "Objects" Maybe the document should say: http://plutonia.com/ and it's management screen is at http://plutonia.com/manage" And to manage one of the three departments used in the examples, say for example "News" then: http://plutonia.com/news/manage" Other notes on this issue: Timothy J. Grant asked: "...My problem is that my Root folder in Zope has no name, and it appears that FSIMPORT requires a folder name for it to work." No response was found to this post on the ZOPE list. -bobo connor

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Apache Authorization
by Milos Prudek 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

I have a problem with authorization under Apache 1.3.3 I can go to introductory screen but I can't get to ./manage screen. I get Athorization failed, and when I pres cancel I get the traceback below. I have put the lines (with modification reflecting my placement of Zope.cgi) from doc/WEBSERVER.txt at the top of my srm.conf file. I wasn't sure where to put it, since according to Apache documentation the directive is not inherited. Later I copied those lines to Virtual WWW section of www.sol.cz but to no avail. What does the line "Zope configuration maps /Zope/ to the Zope.cgi cgi script" mean? I thought that all I need to do is put Zope.cgi in my cgi-bin, put the above lines into srm.conf, and restart Apache... You can try it on http://www.sol.cz/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi. name is superuser, password is 123 # This is the traceback: You are not authorized to access this resource. No Authorization header found. Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 877, in publish_module File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 531, in publish (Info: /manage) File /usr/local/zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 297, in unauthorized Unauthorized: (see above) -- Milos Prudek

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RE: [Zope] Images and Zope1.10.2
by Brian Lloyd 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

> I have a nifty system whereby each individual I add to a database > automatically gets a personal directory and password. One of my users > has come to me with a problem. He can add images to his directory, but > cannot subsequently edit the image (i.e. open the image's > manage screen) > as it complains about lack of permissions. The security role he has > contains all the image related options I see. He can delete it, btw. > This is not an immediate issue, but I do wonder why the permissions > don't seem to be working in a sensible manner. Why should he > be able to > add images, but not manage them? Are there extra 'image manage' > permissions? If so, where do I find them? > Make sure the user's role has the "Change Images and Files" permission... Hope this helps! Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope for CD Index?
by Jose.Lacal＠icn.siemens.com 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

Folks: http://www.freeamp.org/cdindex I don't know if anybody in the community would like to approach these folks and show them how Zope can make their project so much easier to manage / control. "The CD Index project (this is a temporary name -- we should find a better name soon) is designed to replace the badly designed and even worse administered CDDB project." Just a PR hint. Regards. - - - - - I do NOT speak for Siemens. - - - - - "Everything we lack, we make-up in denial." Jose C. Lacal, Senior Engineer, Data Services Siemens I & CN - Boca Raton, FL USA jose.lacal(a)icn.siemens.com +01 (561) 955-3081

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FAQ 0.2 - About this FAQ
by Martijn Faassen 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

Zope FAQ 0.2 - About this FAQ and the Zope Documention Project * What is this FAQ? This FAQ is a project of the Zope Documentation Project, and aims to answer any (or at least lost) questions you might have about Zope and how to use it. * What is the Zope Documentation Project? The Zope Documentation Project (ZDP) is a community project of Zope users that aims to create documentation for Zope. The first goal of the ZDP is the creation and maintenance of an extensive Zope FAQ, later on other documentation will follow. We welcome everybody to contribute; for instance by sending in questions and answers for the FAQ. * Where is the rest of this FAQ? The Zope FAQ has been split into separate sections. If you are reading this on the ZDP mailing list, you should see the other documents posted as well. If you are reading this on zope(a)zope.org or zope-dev(a)zope.org, you will only see this message. The Zope FAQ is under development. It is probably already useful, but because I don't want to spam everybody you will have to look at the ZDP list to see the rest of the FAQ. Everyone is very welcome to join the ZDP list. You can also wait until the ZDP has its web infrastructure going and the FAQ is published on the web. This will hopefully be very soon; we're working on it. * How do I contribute? The Zope Documentation Project has its own mailing list (zdp(a)zope.org) You are encouraged to use this list for all ZDP related communications. Please do not send your messages (such as FAQ contributions) to Martijn Faassen (the current FAQ maintainer) if your message can be sent to the mailing list instead. * How do I join the ZDP mailing list? You can subscribe to the ZDP mailing list by using the page:: http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zdp Thanks in advance for your contributions! * Are there other Zope-related FAQs? Yes, there is the "Zope Questions and Answers" at:: http://www.zope.org/Information/QA/ This is maintained by Digital Creations; currently it is the best place to look if you are brand new to Zope. That said, Paul Everitt of Digital Creations has kindly contributed the Zope Questions and Answers to the ZDP (or vice versa; the ZDP is contributing to the Q&A). The ZDP plans to merge the two FAQs shortly. * What is Structured Text and what does it have to do with this FAQ? The FAQ is (currently) written in Structured Text, so you may very well reading the FAQ in Structured Text format (the double colons and the indented paragraph structure give it away). If you are just reading this FAQ you shouldn't worry about it. If you plan to contribute to the ZDP we'd prefer it if your contributions were written in Structured Text, however. For more information see the Structured Text section of this FAQ. * What are these FIXME comments I see scattered through the FAQ? If you are reading the ZDP mailing list or its archives, then it is the FAQ's editor (or possibly a contributor) who is not entirely sure about some details on Zope, and is asking people on the list to help figure it out. If you are reading this FAQ somewhere else, then oops, they don't belong there. Please send a message to the zdp(a)zope.org list telling us about it, and thanks! * What other sections does this FAQ have? We currently have sections on: o DTML o Zope Administration o Structured Text o External Methods o Builtin Products o Product Development

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Images and Zope1.10.2
by Shaw, Howard 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

I have a nifty system whereby each individual I add to a database automatically gets a personal directory and password. One of my users has come to me with a problem. He can add images to his directory, but cannot subsequently edit the image (i.e. open the image's manage screen) as it complains about lack of permissions. The security role he has contains all the image related options I see. He can delete it, btw. This is not an immediate issue, but I do wonder why the permissions don't seem to be working in a sensible manner. Why should he be able to add images, but not manage them? Are there extra 'image manage' permissions? If so, where do I find them?

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Re: [Zope] ZServer as a windows NT service?
by Robin Dunn 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

I currently have ZServer running as a service on two machines using the srvany.exe tool from the NT resource kit or from MSDN. Essentially srvany is the actual service and then you tell it via registry settings what other program you want to run. It works good enough for me for the time being. The only problem is that the service stop message does a hard kill on the ZServer process so any last second updates to the Zope DB might be fragmented if it wasn't finished writing, but with the way the DB works at least the DB will still be usable. I am out of the office right now so I can't provide step by step instructions right now. There is a .doc file that comes with srvany.exe that I followed. I specified that Python was the executeable to be run by srvany, the ZServer directory is to be the CWD, and that the command-line should be start.py. Worked first try. Of course the right thing to do would be to integrate native service capabilities into ZServer itself via the win32api packages. That way ZServer could shhutdown gracefully and could send meaningful things to the event log. But srvany is good enough for alpha level, non-production servers. And I havn't had any problems to speak of dealing with running it as a service. -- Robin Dunn robin(a)AllDunn.com http://AllDunn.com/robin/ http://AllDunn.com/wxPython/ Check it out! Try http://AllDunn.com/laughworks/ for a good laugh. -----Original Message----- From: Dick Wall <dick.wall(a)mediamail.telinet.com> To: zope(a)zope.org <zope(a)zope.org> Date: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 5:09 AM Subject: [Zope] ZServer as a windows NT service? >Hi all, > >I have been using python for years, and zope for a few months now (lovely), >ZServer for weeks, but Windows NT? Not long enough to understand the >differences between services and ordinary process (give me a break, I am >heavily from a Un*x background) :-). > >I know when I installed the binary version of Zope on the windows machine >here it gave me a service in the services list which I can activate on >startup. However, I am betting that this runs the ZopeHTTPServer, not the >ZServer which I got as a separate download. I have everything working just >lovely with the ZServer now, but it needs to be run as an NT service (and >respond to start and stop signals, etc) at which point I freely admit my >own inadequacies in this area. > >Now my question. How can I do what I need to do. Is it simply a case of >redirecting a python 'shell' file used by the service to the start.py in >the ZServer module, or is there more to it? If it is this simple, which >python 'shell' file do I use? If it is not this simple, can someone send me >basic instructions on how to do it (why is NT like this - give me an >rc.local file any day - I know where I stand with that stuff). > >Thanks in advance. > >Dick > > >_______________________________________________ >Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org >http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > >(For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, >zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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RE: [Zope] tree doesn't work 4me linux amd win32
by Michel Pelletier 09 Mar '99

09 Mar '99

> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Heath [mailto:A.K.Heath@shu.ac.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 12:06 PM > To: zope(a)zope.org > Subject: [Zope] tree doesn't work 4me linux amd win32 > > > I'm a zope newbie. > > I just installed on a windows 95 box and on a linux 2.0.something > but I can't get anything with tree working (other stuff seems ok). > > Hadars' second sample app doesn't work for me (the tree part > produces no output). > > Even the minimal > >  >  > > doesn't produce output (tried this with the second Habar example after > creating the "sub-folders"). > > I get the same behaviour on windows as linux. > > I must be doing something wrong. Clues please ? > I bet your using a DTML Document. Try using a DTML Method. The reason why the tree tag renders nothing for the DTML Document is because DTML Documents are not containers of other objects, they are objects to hold DTML content. DTML Methods are (and this is the suble thing) *methods* of the Folder object that contains them. They are not 'objects' in the same sense of the term used for DTML Documents (I can hear Jim saying now "*everything's* an object"). Because Folder objects *are* containers, the #tree tag used in a Folder's DTML Method will render the contents of that Folder. Hadar's example is a little outdated, it is based on 1.9, in which DTML Documents didn't exist, and all Documents were DTML methods. -Michel > Andy > btw: Zope looks really good to me (when I can get over these > glitches). > > --------------------------- > Andy Heath, Senior Lecturer a.k.heath(a)shu.ac.uk o > Sheffield Hallam University. Phone: +44 114 2534904 /\ > Sheffield, England Fax: +44 114 2533161 () () > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope maillist - Zope(a)zope.org > http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope > > (For developer-specific issues, use the companion list, > zope-dev(a)zope.org - http://www.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) >

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