On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:48, Dennis Allison wrote:
Thanks for this tip. Tried it and still can't login though. Just get another little login window popping up every time I try.
Well, I guess I'd next try to download a fresh copy of zope (2.6.2b5 is the latest stable with bug fixes). I'd get the binary version and unpack it into a new directory and try to get it to run. It should pretty much run out of the box. When you get that to work you can then work backwards to get it installed as a Suse service.
Thanks, trying that now.. .. first attempt failed. Trying again, following installation notes in the Zope Book: http://zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/InstallingZope.stx YES! (0) Remove all my Zope and Python stuff with SuSE 9's Yast device. Then, (1) Create a 'zope' user with # useradd -d /opt/zope (2) Create 'zope's home dir # mkdir /opt/zope # chown zope:users /opt/zope (3) Give user 'zope' a system password with # passwd zope (enter a password you can remember here) (4) Unpack the downloaded binary (downloaded from zope.org) in the /opt/zope dir. Move it there first if that is not where it is. # tar -xvzf Zope-2.6.2-linux2-x86.tgz (5) IMPORTANT! Change ownership of everything (recursively, option -R) in /opt/zope to user 'zope' group 'users' # chown -R zope:users /opt/zope/* (6) Logged out 'root' and back in as 'zope' ...tap tap tap (takes me to user 'zope's home dir -- /opt/zope) (7) Install Zope $ ./install (Yes! it worked this time. Had tried it before chowning all /opt/zope to 'zope:users' and it had failed.) IMPORTANT! Note the username and password shown by the installer. --------------------------------- afterthoughts... ----------------------------------------- Why not chown /opt/zope dir itself to 'zope:users'? $ su [root password] # chown zope:users /opt/zope # exit Please advise me.. Should the group be 'users'? Someone please advise me if it should be something else :--) For this installation of Zope I will use Zserver instead of Apache. Now.. can I sign into the browser based management window? :-/ (http://myserver:8080/manage1) (0) Start Zope (logged in a 'zope') $ /opt/zope/start (cool, it starts!) (1) On my desktop computer (Zope is running on my server computer) login to the Zope's Wed manage interface. Startup Mozilla and go to, http://myserver:8080/manage (or is in manage1? I already forgot but I'm on manage now, no numeral 1 here) Sign in.. Failed! Ouch! Sign in and *cut and paste* the password from my still open server terminal window into the browser authentication window... Yes! Works! I'm IN THE ZOPE ADMIN WEB PAGE! .. it was a dicey password to type in by hand on my goofy DataHand keyboard 8=) Hope this helps someone. Took me THREE DAYS to get to this point! :-| Thanks all who offered tips. I'm sure I will need more.. Roger :-)