Tim, Thanks for compiling that and setting up the windows installer. However, I don't believe it works. Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I wanted to try installing this on a second computer before I wrote back. On both of them it starts the cmd window and displays the command called to run, and then fails to finish the load up or start the server. Possibly it does work and both of my systems are configured wrong, but I couldn't get either install to run. Also, Zope 2.9 is out, if you had planned to make a Windows binary for that also. -Rob Conner On 1/6/06, Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> wrote:

[Tim Peters]

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... I didn't even realize Andreas had released 2.8.5. I'll build a Windows installer for it (I already have everything needed to do that) and put it on the download page later today:

http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.8.5

Zope-2.8.5-final-win32.exe is available from that page now. Enjoy!

-- Robert Conner <rtconner@gmail.com> http://www-student.cse.buffalo.edu/~rtconner

Well color me purple, it does work. I was just so used to seeing the "Zope Ready to handle Requests" message that when it never appeared I just assumed it was not working at all. I've broken Zope on my computer 100 times and always when its broken it does not display "Zope Ready to handle Requests". I won't make any more excuses for myself here, they don't help anything. Man, I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Or another way (something I'd never do in real life, but I guess some people do) I always run Zope in the console. The only reason I even use the Windows version is for development. As far as I can tell the fastest way for me to stop and restart Zope if to close down the command window and then start it back up again. When I develop, I restart Zope all the freeking time, so the faster the restart, the better.

Sorry, Rob Conner On 1/9/06, Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> wrote:

[Robert Conner]

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Thanks for compiling that and setting up the windows installer. However, I don't believe it works. Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I wanted to try installing this on a second computer before I wrote back. On both of them it

What is "it"? Please spell out exactly what you did. The installer was tested on Win XP Pro SP2 and worked fine there. I just downloaded it again, and had no problems:

- Ran the installer, and accepted all the defaults.

- In particular, accepting all the defaults runs Zope as a Windows service, so Zope starts automatically, and the installer brings up the

Zope Windows Binary Post-Installation QuickStart

page in a broswer.

- I clicked on "Zope Management Interface" in that, and entered the admin password I gave to the installer when it asked for one.

- I was then logged in to the ZMI, in a running Zope 2.8.5.

I have no idea what you did, because you really didn't say ;-)

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starts the cmd window and displays the command called to run,

Sorry, I'm not picturing what you did at all. Needs more words.

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and then fails to finish the load up or start the server. Possibly it does work and both of my systems are configured wrong, but I couldn't get either install to run.

So I'll try something else:

- I stopped the Zope service (by using the Windows Services applet).

- Opened a DOS box and cd'ed to the root of the instance home (\Zope-Instance, the default created by the installer).

- Typed "bin\runzope" and hit ENTER. This is exactly what was displayed in the console then:

C:\Zope-Instance>bin\runzope

C:\Zope-Instance>"C:\Program Files\Zope-2.8.5-final\bin\python.exe" "C:\Program Files\Zope-2.8.5-final\lib\python\Zope2\ Startup\run.py" -C "C:\Zope-Instance\etc\zope.conf"

There isn't more output, and more isn't expected.

- Waited a while ;-), then opened a browser and typed

http://localhost:8080/manage

in the address bar.

- Once again I was then logged in to the ZMI, in a running Zope 2.8.5.

Or another way (something I'd never do in real life, but I guess some people do):

- Shut down Zope from the last try.

- Clicked Start -> All Programs -> Zope 2.8.5-final -> Run Zope In Console That "should be" the same as typing "bin\runzope" by hand as in the last try, and indeed it worked the same way.

Did you try one of those ways? If so, which one? If not, what did you try? If you tried the third way and the goofy little DOS box "vanished", try the second way instead. You may get to see a relevant error message then. Also look in your instance's var\log\event.log. If you're running as a Windows service, look in the Windows Application and System event logs too. One particular problem when running as a service is that Windows Firewall will _not_ prompt you if it blocks a socket started from a service. Instead the service hangs or dies.

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Also, Zope 2.9 is out, if you had planned to make a Windows binary for that also.

At this point it's unclear what will happen for that. Zope 2.9 switches from Python 2.3.5 to Python 2.4.2, and uses zpkgtools for the first time to package the distribution. Consequences include that the code used to build pre-2.9 Zope Windows installers can't work to build one for 2.9 too. An unknown amount of new work is needed there, and AFAICT nobody is working on it.

-- Robert Conner <rtconner@gmail.com> http://www-student.cse.buffalo.edu/~rtconner