Hi, thanks for the reply.
1) I can download a 170M file but not a 180M file through the http server. With the larger file request we get a 500 error in the trace log. The download box pops up but nothing is actually downloaded.
If there's a 500 error in the trace or access log, there should be something in your error_log too. Traceback please?
None. Zippo. Squat. I've turned on 'ALL' logging in zope.conf for all logs. All I get is a simple entry in the Z2.log thus: 128.214.209.35 - cwilton [08/Dec/2005:18:38:46 +0300] "GET /dali/downloads/180M.tar HTTP/1.1" 500 272 "" "Opera/8.5 (X11; Linux i686; U; en-GB)" And an equally unhelpful entry in the trace log: ------ 2005-12-08T18:45:23 B 1131651340 2005-12-08T18:45:23 GET /dali/downloads/180M.tar ------ 2005-12-08T18:45:23 I 1131651340 2005-12-08T18:45:23 0 ------ 2005-12-08T18:45:24 A 1131651340 2005-12-08T18:45:24 500 272 ------ 2005-12-08T18:45:24 E 1131651340 2005-12-08T18:45:24 ------ Nothing at all in our error log (stderr and stdout for zope process redirected to logfile) or the event log. Thanks for the advice on ftp; I might look at newer Zopes, but we'd rather not have to use zope's ftp (for reasons including those you pointed out), as our content should be reachable through the http server; I'd rather tackle that problem.
LocalFS doesn't support properties at all AFAIK. Bummer. Anyhow, see above about wanting to avoid ftp...
and Zope creates the link to the local directory with user Zope, group Zope, permissions 660 ... You're talking about Zope permissions and filesystem permissions in the same sentence ... Sorry, that was a bit muddled, what I meant was when I list dir contents using ftp, I see my LocalFS object listed there with 'owner' Zope, 'group' Zope, and mods 660 as far as ftp is concerned. The security settings in zope are the ones that I seem unable to change for a LocalFS object. Well, they're clickable, but the changes don't seem to stick. Again, bummer, but again, I was hoping it'd be unnecessary...
Any obvious config settings I might be missing? Thanks, Chris