thanks for the helpful hints, i now have b1 running on my laptop (which will be used to present my project to the professor). but.... one little weird thing... i transferred the Data.fs from my a3-install and everything works fine, until i am using the only locally created role i have to access ZSQL-methods. all of a sudden this user is no longer authorized. the user is basically a replica of an anonymous user with permissions to view, access contents information, and use database methods. this is to cordon off one website area to authorized users only. here is the traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File /usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 256, in publish_module File /usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 161, in publish File /usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 154, in mapply (Object: kdsearch_DTML) File /usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 98, in call_object (Object: kdsearch_DTML) File /usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b1-src/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 150, in __call__ (Object: kdsearch_DTML) File /usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b1-src/lib/python/OFS/DTMLMethod.py, line 145, in __call__ (Object: kdsearch_DTML) File /usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: kdsearch_DTML) File /usr/src/Zope-2.0.0b1-src/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_In.py, line 601, in renderwb (Object: kdsearch_SQL) Unauthorized: (see above) it seems to be happening when the ZSQL method is being called. funny enough, the same method is called by anonymous unauthenticated users at another location in the website. and: if i answer the user/password screen with my manager name/password it works. the same thing with the very same settings still works fine on the main install on my server, which is still a3. anyone have any idea? did b1 introduce some subtle permissions changes that i don't know about??? Jens Vagelpohl

-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Petrilli [mailto:petrilli@digicool.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 16:05 To: Jens Vagelpohl; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] upgrade procedure

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hi everyone,

since all is so quiet in zope-land... let me throw out a question here :)

what is the best way to upgrade (in my case from 2.0.0a3 to b1) an existing site without endangering the existing objects? i'm running it on RH6.

I would say the best way is to install the new Zope in a new directory, then copy the Data.fs over... this has all the objects in it. If you have added products, I'd readd them (I always keep the tar.gz files around for just such an occasion). This way you have the old version if something should go wrong.

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