Hi Evan, Hi all, I made a cc to the zope list because other people could encounter the same problem and I couldn't find anything appropriate about the solution in the list. I tried to make my life easier with INSTANCE_HOME as described in http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/instancehome. All seems to work fine. But Zope displays the following error on startup: 2001-02-13T09:41:49 ERROR(200) ZServer Cannot write PID file. After some searching I know what happend. I _moved_ the whole var directory to my INSTANCE_HOME so zope couldn't write the pcgi.pid to the disappeared var directory anymore. So I propose to mention the fact in your the How-To that at least a empty var directory has to remain in the original zope installation. This note applies to Zope 2.3.0 (and possibly to former versions too) on a NT4SP6us machine. Greetings, Greg P.S.: Sorry about my emglish. It's not my mother tongue! _____________________________________ Grégoire Weber mailto:gregoire.weber@switzerland.org