Tony McDonald wrote:
Ok, I'll probably get battered for this, but people seem to have fewer problems with the tarball than with the RPM. Chris mentioned the linux binary release, and as someone who started off with binary releases (Solaris) I can state that they *do work*.
I try to use RPM installations most of the time because I am a 'sunday programmer' and tarball installations tend to require more of my input - but at this point I give up on the rpms both the powertools version and the zope list version - been down those roads for 2 days now with no success.
(I note you haven't got a filename in the above zpasswd line).
I had it in there - I have successfully added and changed passwords in this file but it is still not recognized - I sure hope I don't get through the tarbal install and find that the problem is with NN4.77 - please tell me that is NOT going to happen! I wonder about encoding - if the browser encodes the password using a different encoding method than it was created with in the access file - then how can they be matched? the zpasswd.py file mentions three different encoding options - SHA, UNIX and CLEARTEXT - the question is what is the browser using?
It's a traceback - and yes to people new to Zope, it is daunting. What it's saying is that you're unauthorized for the URL you were trying to look at. Was it
-yes - that's the url - glad to know that is all they are saying - too bad there is not a way to fix it.
There's the tarball source installation, and the tarball binary installation. The binary releases are only made for beta and final versions of Zope (that's why there's no binary for 2.4.0a1 - 'here be dragons!').
OK - now I do have a working python compiler - but why would I want to do the source install if I have the binaries? is there any benefit of doing the source installation vs the other? Also thanks for your advice on the Zserver vs apache configuration - something I read somewhere (the book, the docs, the help, the mailing list archive -- <scotty beam me UP>) in the past two days convinced me to use the Zserver configuration. Are you saying that out of the tarball 'box' so to speak the configuration is Zserver? or do I have to do something special to select zserver. is the zope start-up script placed into the /etc/rd.d/init.d directory on this install as well?
There's a lot of information to assimilate when first using Zope Nicole, not least the different publishing model the system uses. It's definitely worth it - we have about a dozen developers thundering away at Zope now and our productivity is dramatically higher than the old Perl/PHP days...
I am learning Zope for a client that is considering zope for their corporate intranet - seems like it would be perfect for that - I will also be very interested to see how it increases productivity in perl/php development (languages of choice for 'sunday' programmer such as myself.)
HTH Tone
Yes, TH'ed - thanks, Tone. Warm regards from San Diego, Nicole PS - almost went to England for a visit this month - got cancelled <sigh> -- ######################## Nicole Lallande nicole@nmlconsulting.com 760.753.6766 ########################