[Zope] - Re: Zope Win32 feedback and plea for help

[Brad Marsh]

Hi, all,

Just a quick sharing of experience...

I tried installing the Win32 version on Win95, and was able to get it going
pretty easily. However, when I tried to access the /manage section, I got an
error (see below). Paul Everitt answered my query directly, and provided
some guidance.

I was just now successful starting Zope and opening the /manage section, and
here's what I did:

Install the Zope binary, use the integrated server (which needs a catchy
name, I think).

Download and install Python, win32 extensions (all) from the Python web
site. They only offer v.1.5.1...

Modify the serve.bat file in your Zope root directory to point to the new
Python directory and python.exe file. Mine reads:

    "C:\Program Files\Python\python.exe" "C:\Program Files\Zope\serve.py"

Move the stuff that is currently in the Zope\var directory (I put it in a
temp directory so it wouldn't get lost). Make sure the var directory is
empty.

That's it! Run the modified serve.bat and off you go. Good luck...

Brad Marsh, Computer Specialist
Center for Evaluation and Research, LLC
http://www.tchp.org/cer/

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Everitt <Paul@digicool.com>
To: Brad Marsh <research4@snowcrest.net>; support@digicool.com
<support@digicool.com>
Date: Saturday, December 12, 1998 11:57 AM
Subject: RE: Zope Win32 feedback and plea for help


>
>Brad wrote:
>> Zope runs with the integrated server just fine; I read all
>> the quickstart
>> docs, then tried the management screen link
>> (http://localhost:8080/manage).
>> "Error: The server returned an unrecognized response."
>
>>    if isinstance(b,Exception): b=str(b)
>> TypeError: second argument must be a class
>
>I did some poking around.  Here's what I came up with.
>
>First, there is an error message that pops up in the window just when
>serve.bat is run that talks about 'import tracebacks' failing and 'use
>python -v'.
>
>I happened to have Python 1.5.2b2 installed on my Win95 machine so I
>tried launching it with that instead of the included Python.  I had to
>move all the contents of the var directory out of the way, as 1.5.2b2
>had a bug in pickle.  With no var/Data.bbb* files, I started serve.py
>with Python 1.5.2b2 and it came up just fine.
>
>Of course, 1.5.2b2 has some other problems with it...
>
>--Paul
>