[Zope] - Authenication problems when on webhost?

[Jimmie Houchin]

On Tue, 08 Dec 1998 16:04:55 -0500 "Phillip J. Eby" wrote:
>At 02:51 PM 12/8/98 -0600, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
>>
>>Is their a simple way to test if it is already (automatically) available
>>without asking tech support?
>
>Yeah.  Put a CGI script in a password-protected directory and have it print
>out the environment.  If there's an HTTP_AUTHORIZATION variable that says
>"Basic" followed by some base64 gibberish, you're in.

Uh oh. What was that that just went over my head. :)

I attempted to do what I thought you said.
I created a directory, cgi-bin/test, and gave it only owner permisions.
I then tried to run the test.py script from Netscape and got an error.
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/test/test.py on this server.

Oops. :)

Got any instructions for someone who's clueless?

>>>This means that ZOPE should run virtually out of the box on a Hiway or
>>>RapidSite
>>>host.  A couple of points to mention, though...  Hiway does not allow you
>>>to run your own servers, so ZopeHTTPServer is absolutely out.  Since Hiway
>>>servers are also periodically rebooted for various kinds of maintenance,
>>>you cannot rely on such a process staying up indefinitely anyway.  This
>>>also means you need to be sure if you're using an LRP that it can
>>>auto-start from the web.
>>
>>Thanks for the reply. I hope any/all site(s) with excellent support for
>>Python/Zope does well and prospers. :)
>>
>
>Ugh.  You just reminded me...

Oh. Anytime. :)

Although I built Python 1.5.1 and it's on
>all the Hiway/RapidSite servers, and it even includes loadable modules for
>ExtensionClass and Acquisition, Hiway doesn't give customers access to the
>IRIX C compiler any more, so you're currently out of luck if you want to
>use cDocumentTemplate or any of the other new C stuff.  When I get out from
>behind my current backlog I will try to get the binaries up to date and
>include the good stuff from Zope.  Although, in order not to annoy the
>sysadmins too much, I'll want to keep new-version compilations to a minimum.

I didn't know it when I signed up with my webhost but having access to the
C compiler came in handy. When I request they add Python 1.5.x to their
support they said okay if they get enough requests. So with a little help
from c.l.p. I compiled Python 1.5.1 to my directory. :)
I can see it will come in handy with Zope. :)

Thanks for your patient help.

Jimmie Houchin