localhost can be misleading. it's even worse in a hybrid network using WINS/DNS. From my experience I don't start it as a service that way I can see the DOS box. Normally I can see what port and the name of the machine when I start zope. You might have a name resolution problem so I would try using http://machinename:8080 or http://127.0.0.1:8080. Also assuming you have TCP/IP properly initialized on that machine. If everything still seems in order you either try debug mode or run a freeware port scanner on the machine to see if that port is already open. Topcheese ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Paul Browning <paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:32:28 +0100

A while back I reported a problem with Zope under Win98. The symptoms are that everything looks OK in the MS-DOS command window but that when you try and browse to http://localhost:8080 then nothing happens.

A number of people made useful suggestions including making sure the was an entry in the Windoze LMHOSTS file but to no avail.

As Zope did _once_ work on this particular PC I went back to Zope 2.1.6 as I had a hunch that this was version I had originally tried (the problems on started when I upgraded to a later version).

However, no luck.

Then, just for the hell of it, I installed Zope 1.10.3. IT WORKS (over port 9673)!

Zope V1 isn't alot of use to me, but I thought I'd report my findings in case it causes any flashes of deduction amongst Windows gurus out there which might lead to a resolution of the problem.

For the record, the M$ Personal Web Server (or whatever it's called), works just fine - browsing to http://localhost does what you'd expect.

Cheers.

Paul

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