I'm going with the theory that starting Zope as an OSX service caused the problem, since this product was previously working, and that's the only major change I've made recently. Steve, do you have it running as an MOSX service on your machine? If so, do you mind telling me whether it runs under "nobody" or someone else? I was never able to get my OS to recognize the -u switch when starting up, so my Zope runs under "nobody." Here are some steps I took: * Double-checked that there were no spaces or other oddities in the basepath. There were none. * Zope is running as an MOSX service as nobody, which is an unprivileged user. Tried giving "nobody" various privileges, but that made no difference. * The local directories I'm trying to give access to are in a subdirectory of /library/webserver/documents/ Subdirectory is owned by myself:webteam. The subdirectory is shared with "webteam." "webteam" includes users who make changes to that portion of my site. * I added nobody and root to the group "webteam" just to see what would happen but it didn't make a difference. Privileges were rwxrwxrw- * Tried making the privileges rwxrwxrwx on the /library/webserver/documents/subdirectory but that didn't make a difference. * Actually shut down and restarted Zope after each of these steps. Argh. Any further clues, anyone? Steve Spicklemire <steve@spvi.com> wrote:

Hmm.. strange! why would it use basepath for the listing, and then ignore it for the retrieval?

I use LocalFS all the time with the same version of Zope/MOSX... something fishy!

Are you certain there are no spaces/etc in basepath?

-steve

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 01:46  PM, baiewola@netscape.net wrote:

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Here's an example of my problem: http://spider.engin.umich.edu:8080/testing/index_html

This is a test LocalFS that I set up just now. The headers probably won't show up for you, but as you can see, the documents in my file system are actually listed on the page, they simply can't be downloaded.

Here's something I just noticed:  Instead of using the basepath I defined under "Properties" in the Local FS object called "testing" to display the URLs of the items on my hard drive, Zope is using a path relative to /testing/

To put it more succinctly, Zope appears to be ignoring the basepath property.

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