[Zope] Continuing Woe with Win98 (but Zope V1.10.3 works!)

[Phil Harris]

This actually begs a question,

since something else was running on 8080 shouldn't Zope have complained that
the port was in use?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@mitretek.org>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Continuing Woe with Win98 (but Zope V1.10.3 works!)


> The correct host file is called "hosts", not "lmhosts".  However, since
the
> Personal Web Server answers to localhost, it's probably not an issue.  You
> can verify this by trying to ping localhost and see if you get a response.
>
> A suggestion - get Zope to start up on some other port, say 9080, and see
if
> you can talk to it there (just in case something mysterious is stepping on
> port 8080).  I have run PWS and Zope on the same machine in the past,
> although I have also had do strange things that led me to unistall it.
>
> Another thing to try is to get an ftp client and see if it can talk to
Zope
> on port 8021.
>
> When you run Zope, you said that "everything looks normal" in the DOS
> session.  Does that mean that Zope announces which ports it is using and
> what its host name is?  If not, Zope isn't loading correctly.  It should
> look something like this (line breaks in the email client will probably
> garbage up this printout):
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> ------------
> 2001-04-18T15:16:26 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Wed Apr 18
> 11:16:26 2001
>         Hostname: LS1191926A.mitretek.org
>         Port: 8080
> ------
> 2001-04-18T15:16:26 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Wed Apr 18
> 11:16:26 2001
>         Hostname: LS1191926A
>         Port: 8021
> ------
> 2001-04-18T15:16:26 ERROR(200) ZServer Cannot write PID file.
> ------
> 2001-04-18T15:16:26 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Wed Apr 18
> 11:16:26 2001
>         Inet socket port: 8090
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> -----------
> Cheers,
>
> Tom P
>
>
> Paul Browning wrote -
> >
> > A while back I reported a problem with Zope under Win98. The
> > symptoms are that everything looks OK in the MS-DOS command
> > window but that when you try and browse to http://localhost:8080
> > then nothing happens.
> >
> > A number of people made useful suggestions including making sure
> > the was an entry in the Windoze LMHOSTS file but to no avail.
> >
> ...
> > Then, just for the hell of it, I installed Zope 1.10.3. IT WORKS
> > (over port 9673)!
> >
>
>
>
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