instead of editing zope internals (which you might just forget to repeat when you upgrade and run into the same problems) i suggest adding an appropriate entry in /etc/hosts that reflects your machine name. jens -----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of John E. Vincent Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 23:47 To: Chris McDonough Cc: zope@zope.org; lee@bitwiseinc.com Subject: Re: [Zope] [Fwd: How-To: Installing and Upgrading Zope2.x] If no python guru but I was looking over http-server.py and it looks like it trys several different methods on finding your hostname before resorting to using the IP address. Try editing z2.py and changing the field IP_ADDRESS='' to an actual IP address. just use 127.0.0.1. Also make sure you have an entry in /etc/hosts for your localhost like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost The default install should set this up for you. Can any zope genius verify wether what I've said makes sense or not? Does pythoin require any external resolver libraries to be installed for gethostname? hope I haven't sent you on a tangent. On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Chris McDonough wrote:

Lee, I'm forwarding this to the Zope list in case somebody else knows what's going on, because I don't :-)

Lee Catlett wrote:

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Hi Chris and thanks for the How-To, I was doing just find until I got to the ./start at the very end

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see if everything worked and all went south. I received the following:

Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/zope/Zope213/z2.py", line 493, in ? logger_object=lg) File "/usr/local/zope/Zope213/ZServer/medusa/http-server.py", line 560, in __init__ ip = socket.gethostbyname (socket.gethostname()) socket.error: host not found

As this is a new install on RedHat 6.1, have I missed setting up something or what?? Any help or advise a great help as I haven't a clue as to what to do. Thanks. Lee