[Zope] tired of Apache and PCGI

alan runyan runyaga@thisbox.com
Mon, 01 Nov 1999 21:12:34 -0600


i've been doign this for a long time tonight.
running redhat 5.2
apache 1.3.9
zope-2.0.1-src
python 1.52

i get all stuff cozy and if i run try to run
http://domain.com/Zope I get in my err_log:
[Tue Nov  2 02:14:28 1999] [error] [client
24.28.119.115] Premature end of script headers:
/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi

and then if I run
/usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi i get:

Status: 500 Internal Server Error
X-Powered-By: Zope (www.zope.org), Python
(www.python.org)
Bobo-Exception-File:
/home/zope_admin/Zope-2.0.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPRequest.py

Content-Type: text/html
Bobo-Exception-Type: exceptions.KeyError
Bobo-Exception-Value: SERVER_NAME
Content-Length: 1110
Bobo-Exception-Line: 232
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Zope Error</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%">
<TR VALIGN="TOP">
<TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="CENTER">
&nbsp;
</TD>
<TD WIDTH="90%">
  <H2>Zope Error</H2>
  <P>Zope has encountered an error while
publishing this resource.
  </P>
  <P><STRONG>exceptions.KeyError</STRONG></P>
  Sorry, a Zope error occurred.<p>
<!--
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/home/zope_admin/Zope-2.0.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py,
line 212, in publish_module
  File
/home/zope_admin/Zope-2.0.1-src/lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPRequest.py,
line 232, in __init__
KeyError: SERVER_NAME
-->
  <HR NOSHADE>
  <P>Troubleshooting Suggestions</P>
  <UL>
  <LI>The URL may be incorrect.</LI>
  <LI>The parameters passed to this resource may
be incorrect.</LI>
  <LI>A resource that this resource relies on may
be encountering an error.</LI>
  </UL>
  <P>For more detailed information about the
error, please
  refer to the HTML source for this page.
  </P>
  <P>If the error persists please contact the site
maintainer.
  Thank you for your patience.
  </P>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

I dont think this is something people are paying
too much attention to documenting.. I assume
because its such a nightware that right after you
get it done you wanna forget about it (?).  if you
have any comments please cc me on it..

yawn...
runyaga@thisbox.com