[Zope] Zope in Virtual Host on ISP

[Chris Larson]

On 1/31/99 2:53 PM , Kevin Dangoor kid@ans.net said:

>On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 01:24:24PM -0600, Chris Larson wrote: 
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>| OK. Here's the deal. Can someone tell me what issues I face trying to 
>| install Zope in my ISP-hosted virtual Apache. I have no access to root, 
>| and have been through much pain and suffering trying to get the thing 
>| installed. Ideally, a step-by-step how-to is what I'm looking for, but 
>| I'd welcome anything up to and including "ya can't do that."
>| 
>| NOTE: This is not an authentication question. I look forward to the day 
>| I'm asked to authenticate. <cha-grin>
>
>Actually, it's pretty straightforward, except for the authentication part.
>The INSTALL.txt file (in the docs directory of the Zope distribution)
>breaks it down to a nice set of steps.

Assuming I can't convince my ISPs admin to help out (Or rather, that I'm 
too impatient to wait), is there a way around setting the var permission 
to 'nobody'? 'not permitted' at the moment. Rmemember, I do not have 
'root' access.

>If there is something unclear in that doc, you may want to send a note
>to the list asking about that specifically. (The DC guys have been
>working hard to improve the docs).

I'll do so.

>As far as authentication, you are going to want to ask your ISP if they've
>got mod_rewrite installed. You can use Zope without mod_rewrite, but
>(to me) it seems like a pain, because you have to maintain a user list
>for the webserver (in .htpasswd) and another copy of the user list (in
>the User Folders) in Zope.

Is there a way for me to determine this by calling or examining Apache?

>| Alternatively, I could prolly ask the admin to install it for me, but to 
>| be honest, I'm not even sure what to ask. I'm relatively comfortable in 
>| unix, but haven't dealt with Apache much at all, aside from uploading 
>| pages and cgis. 
>
>Is python already installed there? If so, I really don't think you'll
>run into much trouble...
>
On that note, when I run a simple python cgi to return the sys.version of 
python, I get "Python 1.4 (Feb  4 1997)  [GCC 2.7.2.1]". It appears they 
do have PyApache installed. Am I getting a PyApache version number? When 
I 'locate python' all that shows up is 1.5. Also, or maybe more to the 
point, is there any way to force Zope (or any other .cgi) to execute 
python from my user directory as my username? I've installed 1.5.2b1 in 
my local/bin, and suspect that a lot of my problems may be coming from 
the installed 1.5. When I place my user account directory as the path 
(/myaccount/local/bin/python), I end up with "500 Internal Server Error".

Thanks for the prompt help.

Chris