[Zope] running zope-medusa offline

[Rik Hoekstra]

Chris McDonough wrote:
> 
> I believe I saw a mention of this issue on the list a while ago and it
> has to do with medusa wanting to use 127.9.9.9 or somesuch as a loopback
> address, which confounds windows and makes it think you want to connect
> to something extralocalhost (which btw i understand it shouldn't).
> 
> I'm guessing, but I imagine you can change occurances of 127.9.9.9 (or
> whatever it is) to 127.0.0.1 within medusa and see it start to work
> properly.  Once you do, you can submit a patch (lucky you!  :-))

Hm, I wonder. I never had to change this on win95 and I've been running
Zope at home on an oldish P133 with win95 from 1.0.9 through 2.1.6
offline (that is - before and with ZServer).

Unless something strange is going on the solution usually is one of the
following:
- find a file called hosts.sam in you \windows directory. Change it to
reflect localhost as 127.0.0.1 (it has examples saying how to do this,
there is not much to it). Save the file under the name hosts. Win95 uses
this as some sort of DNS lookup
- disable automatic callup for your 'internet adapter'. I always forget
where you have to do this... I believe it is from the explorer or
something.


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mika, David P (CRD) [mailto:mika@crdmsx01.crd.ge.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 4:59 PM
> To: 'zope@zope.org'
> Subject: [Zope] running zope-medusa offline
> 
> Is there a way to run zope-medusa in an offline mode?  e.g.  I have a
> w95 laptop and z2.py starts
> fine if I am either connected to my ISP or LAN, but fails if I am
> offline--I would like to just
> access files via 'localhost' and not have to be connected.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Dave
>