I'm stymied as well. But I do know what it means. Your trying to use a webserver, such as Apache, with Zope. When a request comes into your webserver, your webserver attempts to send the request over to Zope. Here is how. 1. Request arrives at web server. 2. Web server sends request to Zope.cgi. With Apache, a mod_rewrite rule is necessary to pass the authentication information because Apache usually handles basic authentication. 3. Zope.cgi, as configured by the Zope install process, starts up pcgi/pcgi- wrapper. 4. The pcgi-wrapper reads the environment from the Zope.cgi file 5. The pcgi-wrapper determines if the socket is available, and sends the request to the socket of your long-running process -- Zope (Zope2) or pcgi_publisher.py (Zope 1). 6. If the socket is not available, the pcgi-wrapper trys to start the publisher and send the request. 7. The pcgi-wrapper sends the response to the web server, which delivers it to the client Your problem could be in serveral areas. 1. If you are using Zope beta 4 or under, do the following. (This could be fixed in beta 5.) cd /Path/to/your/zope cd pcgi ./configure make This will remake the pcgi-wrapper, which will fail to connect as compiling in the installation tarball. There was a thread on this very topic last week or the week before, you can search egroup.com/list/zope or review the archives from the zope.org site 2. Your Zope.cgi is not configured correctly. There are serveral helpful readmes. In order of importance. doc/INSTALL -- grep for pcgi -- How to start zope with pcgi server enabled. doc/WEBSERVER -- grep for pcgi -- How to setup your webserver to send requests to Zope.cgi doc/FAQ.txt -- a question on what to do when getting "failure to connect" pcgi/README -- overview of pcgi pcgi/Win32/README.nt -- if you do that sort of thing You can also test your pcgiinfo file (Zope.cgi) using the pcgi/Test/parseinfo program. 3. Permissions are set incorrectly for the var directory for Apache or Zope. Mind you, I still haven't figured out my problem, but I am reasonably certain about these notes. Andrew Andreas Kostyrka <andreas@mtg.co.at> said:

Hi!

At the moment I'm a bit stymified about a nonworking ZOPE :(

So what exactly does this mean:

Temporarily Unavailable

The resource you requested is temporarily unavailable - please try again later.

(102) failure during connect

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