[Zope] Installation Troubles

Ben Ocean lists@TheWebsons.com
Wed, 15 Nov 2000 05:57:26 -0800


Hi;
I d/l'd the latest distro. Looked inside and couldn't find any installation 
instructions. Went to the Web site and found some instructions here:
http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/zopeinstall/ZOPE-INSTALL-HOWTO
They didn't work for me. I have crazy ownership problems all over the 
place. If I go into /usr/local/ I have to be root (I own the server), and 
the author indicates that I should be my regular user (webmaster) not root. 
No can do (security reasons). I unpacked the distro and had a bunch of 
files with user permissions for one of my clients! Not even webmaster! What 
gives? (I'm still new to Linux/UNIX.) Then I tried to do the ./install and 
was told there's no such directory (I *do* have ZServer, lib, doc, pcgi, 
and z2.py). Please help. Distributing installation instructions with the 
distro might be a nice thought...
BenO