[Zope] 2.01 will not run on NT4

[Martijn Pieters]

At 16:15 30/09/99 , Michael Simcich wrote:
>Hi all -
>
>Followed the install info for the lastest Zope release on NT. I ran
>start.bat. However browsing to http://localhost:8080/manage gets me a "page
>not found" message.
>
>Here is what start.bat got me:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>C:\ZopeSite>"C:\ZopeSite\bin\python.exe" "C:\ZopeSite\z2.py" -D
>------
>1999-09-30T14:12:37 PROBLEM(100) ZServer Computing default hostname
>------
>1999-09-30T14:12:37 INFO(0) ZServer Medusa (V1.10) started at Thu Sep 30
>07:12:37 1999
>         Hostname: c147070-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com
>         Port:8080
>
>------
>1999-09-30T14:12:37 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Thu Sep 30
>07:12:37 1999
>         Authorizer:None
>         Hostname: gemini
>         Port: 8021
>------
>1999-09-30T14:12:37 INFO(0) ZServer Monitor Server (V1.5) started on port
>8099
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>The installed faq has the following:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>     1. After installing Zope, I go to the URL in my web browser
>        but I get a "404 Not Found" or "Server Error" message
>
>        This message is coming from your web server, not Zope.
>        It usually means that your web server is misconfigured.
>        Ensure that the PCGI info file generated by the installation
>        procedure exists in a cgi-enabled directory, and that your
>        web server has any required aliases or configuration options
>        set to enable it to find this file and run it as a cgi program.
>
>        Look in the error log for your web server for details of the error.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>

This is related to running Zope behind a seperate Web server, like IIS.


>This would seem to contradict this from the install.txt:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
>       5. Select Destination Directory where you want the software
>       installed. This should *NOT* be a directory that is published
>       by any existing web server software.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>

A seperate webserver connects to Zope via a small CGI script, so Zope 
itself doesn't need to be, and shouldn't be, in a published directory.

However, a default install of Zope doesn't install itself to run behind a 
server, but to run behind ZServer. The output from start.bat indicates it 
is running fine.

It seems you don't have any default content in your object database. Just 
add /manage to the URL, like so:

   http://localhost:8080/manage

And you can start adding objects. The fact that no default content is 
provided is however a bug. If you want to have default content, see if the 
file Data.fs.in exists in the var subdir, and copy that to Data.fs (which 
is the objetc database file).



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