[Zope] - first install, first connect

[Jim Fulton]

Dave Goodrich wrote:
> 
> Install an compile went fine with no errors (running ZopeHttpServer on a
> Slackware Linux box)  First connect after an easy install , I request
> "http://myhostnamewenthere:8080/manage" and netscape returned, "Document
> contains no data".   My first guess was that I didn't have permissions to the
> dir Zope needed, but I checked and I do.  So is Zope serving a broken header
> file?

No.

> or is this a common first time error?

No.

> I checked the list archive with no luck.  I couldn't find a file/dir "manage"
> anywhere, even tried a search from
> "/" with no luck.

manage is a method defined in a Python class (from a DTML file defined
in the source tree. I'm 99.99% sure that manage is not really the problem.
 
See note below:

> 
> The server log shows the following errors.

How did you start the server?  Were you root
or an ordinary user?

> <log>
> 
> Publishing module Main
> Serving HTTP on port 8080 ...
> ----------------------------------------
> Exception happened during processing of request from ('xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, 2194)
> ----------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------er.py", line 295, in publish_module
>   File "/home/dad/dadstuff/Zope-1.9b1-src/ZopeHTTPServer/ZopeHTTPServer.py", line 321, in get_environment
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 87, in translate_path
>     path = os.getcwd()
> error: (13, 'Permission denied')

For some reason os.getcwd is failing.

Can anyone think of a reason why os.getcwd would fail?

Jim

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