Please only send HTML emails. Did you fiddle with the z2.py file at all before you started? Do you run an Apache? Do you run an IIS? Are you connected in a network? Peter Welcome to Zope! ----- Original Message ----- From: "mjreddy" <mjreddy@ntlworld.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:33 PM Subject: [Zope] Help! I am an absolute newbie and I have installed zope-2.3.1-win32-x86 on my computer with a cyrix 233mhz processor, 64 mb memory running win95. On running the start.bat, I get the following ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- c:\Program Files\TestWeb>"c:\Program Files\TestWeb\bin\python.exe" "c:\Program Files\TestWeb\ z2.py" -D ------ 2001-07-23T20:13:50 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception Traceback (innermost last): File c:\Program Files\TestWeb\z2.py, line 623, in ? File c:\Program Files\TestWeb\ZServer\HTTPServer.py, line 391, in _init_ File c:\Program Files\TestWeb\ZServer\medusa\http_server.py, line 550, in _init_ error: host not found ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- my computer is named localhost.localdomain (I think!). I would be most grateful for any help. cheers, Mohan