I apologize for writing such a strong title, but I can't get Zope 2.1 to work with NT Apache at all, and my previous message (more extensive) describing my problems went unanswered. I realize installation issues are an impopular topic.
The binary distributation is insufficient, because no Zope.cgi is included.
Yes, you're right. You have to get a Zope.cgi from a non-binary distribution, I'm afraid. Why this is, I cannot tell. It worked under IIS. I have no experience with apache, but I do have with setting up Zope (2.0.1, but it should be the same) under IIS. Probably IIS is (even) more tricky, but the service and pcgi part should be the same
The documention is insufficient, because it is unix-specific; it talks about passing command line options to Zope, but Zope on NT can be ran as a Service, and how to pass command line options then?
Um, you;ll have to hack the registry for that. Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ <Service Name>\Parameters\start To get pcgi working for IIS you have to add '-p X:\IIS\CGI-BIN\zope.pcgi' If I understood it rightly, the service is more or less responding to the same commandline options as z2.py (in fact it is just another way to start up z2.py).
There may be a bug, as a manually constructed Zope.cgi makes the Zope installation 'spin'.
You might want to use the utilities in the pcgi directory for checking your pcgi setup against pcgifile.py. Check out <zope-home>pcgi\win32\README.NT for (some) more information.
See my previous mail to this list for more information.
I can't get it to work at all, and I need to get it to work within the week. Any help would be appreciated.
I suppose Kamon Ayeva's draft on win32 installation could help you out at least for a part, or did you already consult that (even though it is mostly about IIS)? see http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zdp/1999-October/000830.html good luck Rik