hi Bob, I don't know the answer to your problem, but here's what I did: - install Zope 2.7rc1 - install Ape (from http://hathaway.freezope.org/Software/Ape) - install ZWiki 0.26 - install LatexWiki 0.22 - change workDir to be basePath + '/var/LatexWiki/images' in LatexWiki/util.py (yuck) - put this in bottom of $INSTANCE_HOME/etc/zope.conf: %import Products.Ape <ape-db images> <ape-storage> mapper-variation filesystem <ape-fs-connection fs> basepath $INSTANCE/var/LatexWiki </ape-fs-connection> </ape-storage> mount-point /images scan-interval 10 </ape-db> - start zope - add a "ZODB Mount Point," check "Create new folders if ...", and create the mount point. - add a zwiki site, edit a page (using the ZWiki edit view, not the management one), put some LaTeX in it, and change the page type to "Structured Text + Latex". I think Zope 2.7 addresses some of the concerns you have about DBTab, the product that lets you mount databases through the management interface. It's included in Zope 2.7; you don't even need the dbtab.conf file. (You do have to edit zope.conf, though.) Sean