Hello I am still ;^( trying to configure the instance home to work correctly. This is the steps I have done, please, correct me Following, the how-to from http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/instancehome, and http://www.zope.org/Members/dshaw/AdvancedSiteSetup 1. downloaded into /tmp/downloads Zope-2.3.3b1-src.tgz 2. cd /usr/home/Zope/ 3. mkdir InstanceHome 4. mkdir OtherProducts 5. tar zxv /tmp/downloads/Zope-2.3.3b1-src.tgz 6. mv Zope-2.3.3b1-src.tgz SoftwareHome 7. cd InstanceHome 8. mkdir var 9. mkdir Extensions 10. mkdir Products 11. mkdir import 12. cd ../SoftwareHome 13. python w_pcgi.py ..... built of zope files ..... 15. cd ../InstanceHome 16. cp -R ../SoftwareHome/start . 16. cp -R ../SoftwareHome/stop . 17. vi start #! /bin/sh reldir=`dirname $0` INST_HOME=`cd $reldir; pwd` export INST_HOME PYTHONHOME=/usr/home/dsuk/Zope/SoftwareHome export PYTHONHOME exec /usr/local/bin/python $PYTHONHOME/z2.py -D -p /usr/local/www/vhosts/dsuk/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi "$@" 18. vi stop #! /bin/sh kill `cat /usr/home/dsuk/Zope/InstanceHome/var/Z2.pid` 19. python ../SoftwareHome/zpasswd.py access 20. cp -R ../SoftwareHome/Zope.cgi /usr/local/www/vhosts/dsuk/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi Now when I run %./start & I get the following error... 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/home/dsuk/Zope/SoftwareHome/z2.py", line 296, in ? import os, sys, getopt, string ImportError: No module named os Q. The custom_zodb.py should this be in the InstanceHome? Q. If so, what should be the contents of this file Thanks for all your advice Regards Norman