[Zope] [Fwd: How-To: Installing and Upgrading Zope2.x]

[Lee Catlett]

Hi all, and thanks,
I was finally able to determine that even though the 127.0.......   was there,
it wasn't the FIRST entry which in the end resolved the problem.  Thanks all for
the replies.

"John E. Vincent" wrote:

> If no python guru but I was looking over http-server.py and it looks like
> it trys several different methods on finding your hostname before
> resorting to using the IP address. Try editing z2.py and changing the
> field IP_ADDRESS='' to an actual IP address. just use 127.0.0.1. Also make
> sure you have an entry in /etc/hosts for your localhost like this:
>
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
>
> The default install should set this up for you.
>
> Can any zope genius verify wether what I've said makes sense or not? Does
> pythoin require any external resolver libraries to be installed for
> gethostname?
>
> hope I haven't sent you on a tangent.
>
>  On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Chris McDonough
> wrote:
>
> > > Traceback  (innermost last):
> > >     File "/usr/local/zope/Zope213/z2.py", line 493, in ?
> > >         logger_object=lg)
> > >     File "/usr/local/zope/Zope213/ZServer/medusa/http-server.py", line
> > > 560, in __init__
> > >         ip = socket.gethostbyname (socket.gethostname())
> > > socket.error: host not found
> > >
> > > As this is a new install on RedHat 6.1, have I missed setting up
> > > something or what??
> > > Any help or advise a great help as I haven't a clue as to what to do.
> > > Thanks.
> > > Lee
> >
> >
>
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