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- ODBC and zope on NT
by Vincent Joseph 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

hi, On Zope(NT service)/IIS/NT I cannot find a place to add a Zope SQL Database Connection (when I try to add a Zope SQL Method it asks me for a SQL connection). I read the Aqueduct users guide, and it stated that I should find a "Add Aqueduct xxxx(=ODBC) Connection" under Add. This is not there. Will this only appear if I install the ZODBCDA? The ZODBCDA file is a tar.gz file - is this for Unix only? I usually work in Unix and this is not usually a problem - however I am on NT for a short time, and am not sure/familiar with tar or gz for NT. And I am trying out zope on NT/IIS. If the ZODBCA file is for NT as well, could you please point me to some utilities, or provide a .zip or .exe. [The zope executable that I use is a fix (post 1.9 final) given to me by Brian - I am not sure if this may be the reason for above. the fix solved the IIS QUERY_STRING problem] Help would be appreciated. Thanks, Vincent -- It takes two to lie - one to lie and one to listen. (Homer Simpson)

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- YASQ (yet another stupid question)
by Chad Fowler 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

(Yet Another Stupid Question)... I've got 1.9 running fine and have been able to get some dynamic happening using mysql. The one major snag I've run into is this: Say you have an external method, or a SQL Method that accepts a parameter. You want that parameter to be dynamic (possibly based on a field from a DB). How can you pass a dynamic parameter to a method from within DTML? i.e.: )"--> I know I'm not wording this in the best way possible. Please excuse me. I've been fiddling with it for about an hour now, and I can't make any headway. Thanks in advance, Chad Fowler

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RE: [Zope] - NT and IIS problem (argv)
by Brian Lloyd 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

> >Anyway here is the error I get when I browse to > >http://localhost/scripts/samples/zope1.exe/manage > > > ><body> > >Sorry, an error occurred.<p> > ><!-- > >Traceback (innermost last): > > File C:\Program Files\zope1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line > >872, in publish_module > > File C:\Program Files\zope1\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line > >163, in __init__ > > File C:\Program Files\zope1\lib\python1.5\cgi.py, line 795, in > >__init__ > >AttributeError: argv > > This sounds like a problem that Zope 1.9b2 for win32 had. > What version of > Zope are you using? If you are not using the latest version I > would highly > recommend updating to 1.9 final. > > -Amos Aaaaarrgghh... I've figured this out. This should only happen in cases where you are using IIS and the *NT Service* version of Zope. The NT Service version had no sys.argv, which cgi.py checks for if no QUERY_STRING is found in the environment. IIS apparently doesn't even set QUERY_STRING if there isn't one, so cgi.py tries to look at sys.argv which doesn't exist and... I've added a fix that will be in the next revision. In the meantime, I've attached a copy of the updated service binary (named pss.exe). To fix the problem: o stop the zope1 service on your machine o delete the zope1.exe in your Zope installation's "/bin" directory (do NOT delete the one in your cgi directory!). o copy the attached "pss.exe" file to your "/bin" directory and rename it to "zope1.exe". o start up the service Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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RE: [Zope] - Confera into Zope?
by Paul Everitt 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

Mark wrote: > The subject says it all. I expect that first of next year we will release a Confera-like sample application. I doubt we will put it into Zope itself -- we already have too many questions to answer :^) --Paul Paul Everitt Digital Creations paul(a)digicool.com 540.371.6909

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- Virtual servers
by Mike Pelletier 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

It would please me if Zope was able to treat the hostname portion of a URL as another object to be traversed (with a default if no objects seem to match the hostname). Did that make sense? Basically, I want to publish multiple different web sites with different domain names but with a single ZHTTPServer and a single point of administration. Is this something that's already been planned, or should I try my hand at it? Mike. -- --- | Mike Pelletier Work: 519-746-1607 /opeware! | Software Developer Home: 519-725-7710 --- | mike(a)zopeware.com Fax: 519-746-7566 http://www.zopeware.com | Zopeware is not endorsed by Digital Creations

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- RE: ANNOUNCE: Zope 1.9b3
by Brian Lloyd 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

> > > Aaron wrote: > [...] > > http://www.zope.org/Information/QA/ZObjectDatabase > > I haven't actually started using Zope much yet, so I may have missed > something -- but can you have a file object named MyDocs.pdf (as in > this example)? What happens to the "." when this URL is translated > into an object? > > -- > > Magnus > Lie > Hetland www.pvv.org/arcadia <arcadia(a)pvv.org> Yes, you can create file objects like "MyDocs.pdf" - or MyDocs.pdf.zip.foo.bar.blah if you want ;^) The "."s have no effect on URL traversal to the object. The URL equivalent of a python-like expression such as: root.container1.container2.object is: /root/container1/conainer2/object For the purposes of URLS, the equivalent of the python "." operators are the "/"s in the url. The "." characters in the ids of objects in the URL are not meaningful during the traversal process. Hope this helps! Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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- cPickle and cStringIO modules
by Ty Sarna 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

Are the included versions simply there for convenience (like zlib), or do they differ from the versions supplied with Python 1.5.1?

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- ANNOUNCE: Zope 1.9 Final released
by Amos Latteier 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

Fellow Zopistas: Just in time for the holidays, we're happy to announce Zope 1.9 final. http://www.zope.org/Download/ This is mostly a bug fix release. We've also updated the MySQL Database Adapter to use the MySQL module in place of the old mySQL module. Use our Tabula-based bugs and features database to submit bugs. http://www.zope.org/Collector/ And most importantly, have fun! -Amos -- Amos Latteier mailto:amos@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com P.S. Here's the changelog: Zope 1.9.0 New Features * Zope now provides better information about products. If a Product has a README.txt, then it will be readable through the product management interface. * If a product encounters an error during startup, the traceback is available through the product management interface. * Cache statistics are displayed in minutes, rather than seconds. * Products can define the attribute __module_aliases__ in their __init__ modules that specifies aliases for modules used in the product. This is useful if module names have changed and the database contains pickles referring to the old modules. The attribute should be a sequence of tuples. Each tuple has a (dotted) module name and a module. Bugs Fixed * Development on ZopeHTTPServer has been frozen in anticipation of the switch to Medusa. Therefor ZopeHTTPServer still does support PUT. Sorry. * ZPublisher.Client used the obsolete rand module. * Errors occurring during product import caused Zope to fail to come up. * Product version information was not displayed correctly. *ZGadflyDA cached table meta-data which lead to misleading information when browsing databases.

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- Can I get the real URL info into the Zope server?
by skip＠calendar.com 22 Dec '98

22 Dec '98

I'm using Andreas' technique of running ZopeHTTPServer behind an Apache server and using mod_rewrite and mod_proxy to pump requests to it. Unfortunately, within the Zope environment I lose all indication of what the original URL was. For instance, if you access http://concerts.dolphin.calendar.com/z/check_request you'll see a number of URL- and host-related fields: BASE0: 'http://127.0.0.2:8043' HTTP_HOST: '127.0.0.2:8043' PARENT_URL: 'http://127.0.0.2:8043' SERVER_NAME: 'concerts.dolphin.calendar.com' URL: 'http://127.0.0.2:8043/check_request' Only SERVER_NAME indicates the front-end server, and that only because I started the server with SERVER_NAME=concerts.dolphin.calendar.com. Is there a way to pump the real URL information across the boundary between the proxy and Zope servers? In output pages I can't simply generate server-relative URLs, because the PATH_INFO (or SCRIPT_NAME) is different between the two servers. The Zope server doesn't know that /z/... in the proxy server maps to /... in the Zope server. Ideally, this would be something I'd pass in from the rewrite rule, since the mapping between proxy and Zope servers is established on a per rewrite rule basis. Apache's mod_rewrite still has a bit more black magic than I comprehend yet. Skip

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RE: [Zope] - Virtual servers
by Paul Everitt 22 Dec '98

22 Dec '98

Chris wrote: > I would say also working correctly under NSAPI and IIS would be pretty > high priorities. I've been trying to get a customer to use Zope to > build something that would fit perfectly, but they have all kinds of > "company standards" that are used to tell you "no" in so many > ways that > I believe OED would be interested in new definitions. Sorry, instead of Apache I should have said "leading web servers". Of course that opens me up to Mac criticism :^) --Paul

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