[Zope] Problem starting zope on Win98

[Andy McKay]

Windows 9x does not have a service / background way of running things in the
same way that NT does, so you will always have a dos-prompt running and yes
AFAIK that means you can't detach from it.

Its a real pain.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Browning" <paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk>
To: "Ben Edwards" <ben@videonetwork.org>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Problem starting zope on Win98


>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:03:37 +0000 Ben Edwards <ben@videonetwork.org>
wrote:
>
> > I have installed zope on a 500mhz laptop with 64MB. When I run start.bat
> > the server, ftp and pcgi comes up but when I type
http://192.168.0.11:8080
> > (my ip address:80) or http://localhost:8080 or http://green:8080
(machine
> > name) I get can't find server.  Don't know if this is relevant
> > but  start.bat brings up a command window, runs the python program
> > (outputting host names and ports for the three 'services') and douse not
> > return to the dos prompt.  I assume this is because it is not ruining in
> > background in the same way it douse on NT.
>
> Ben:
>
> You are not alone. I had Zope work okay on a Win98 box when
> I first installed it. But subsequent installs (to upgrade)
> have never worked and show the symptoms you describe.
>
> I've got a hunch that the registry needs tweaking but
> I know precious little about that on NT and SFA on Win98.
>
> Windoze gurus please help!
>
> Paul
>
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