Hi !
I've recently installed zope 2.0.0a1 on a couple of machines
(all using apache 1.3.6 & pcgi) and ran into some minor problems -
I hope reporting them will further improve zope.
time.tzname
one linux libc5 based python 1.5.2 installation doesn't
provide time.tzname - the ImportError in DateTime.py should
be caught
PCGI_EXE & execl
this was a tricky one: under one installation I had
an old python 1.5 in /usr/bin and a new python 1.5.2
in /home/xxx/opt/python-1.5.2/bin/. But because
the pcgi-wrapper uses execl the wrong binary was
called at pcgi-time !
Solution: is PCGI_EXE is an absolute path, then
use execlp instead of execl.
PCGI_EXE & permissions
if the pcgi-wrapper cannot execute the binary or not access
the directory of the binary a more informative error
message would really help first time installers
sys.version
related to above, one of the first tests should be a check
that the version of python zope is running under
is really at least 1.5.2
apache rewriting
Assume that I rewrite /foo/Zope to /foo/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi for passing
HTTP auth. information. This works fine for the first access, but
then all references within the zope generated pages point to
/foo/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/whatever and no further rewriting is done from
this point on - so management is not possible.
A workaround is to set SCRIPT_NAME=/foo/Zope in Zope.cgi, but
I think this problem should be handled by zope.
Regards,
Markus
P.S. the CVS server seems to be down
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