[Zope] Zope Troubleshooting Tip (learn from my mistake)

[BZ]

Hey Allen,

Glad it helped. Sometimes it is the little things we miss. :)

Cheers,
BZ

At 7:33 AM -0400 8/6/02, Schmidt, Allen J. wrote:
>Thank you! Thanks you! Thank you!
>
>Another big plug for the open source community! This is exactly the problem
>we were having and pounded our heads over it...and it is really so simple
>when you think about how Zope works! How can one block that out so easily??
>But I guess life is like that...the simple things sometimes are staring you
>right in the face.
>
>Thanks BZ!!!
>
>-Allen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of BZ
>Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 6:28 AM
>To: zope@zope.org
>Subject: [Zope] Zope Troubleshooting Tip (learn from my mistake)
>
>
>So I was trying to get ZUBB to work (yes, I am the person maintaining
>the code as well) and for some reason I could not post to this one
>board I had installed in a virtual host/cmf. I created another board
>and nothing would post. I checked permissions, locations, everything
>and it would not post.
>
>After hours of playing with it and getting quite frustrated I
>remembered a problem I once had with names so I searched my
>installation for "post" but got back nothing but the two post methods
>in my first and test boards.
>
>And then I saw it. Sitting right there in the root directory. A
>folder named "submit". I renamed it "submit_old" and lo and behold I
>could post again.
>
>The problem was that I was checking for "submit" in my post method
>and it was picking up on the directory name (OO and all that
>goodness).
>
>TIP: The lesson learned is: When troubleshooting something in Zope
>make sure you are not calling a method or variable that has the same
>name as another method / variable / object in your folder paths. Use
>the find feature and take a look around.
>
>Cheers,
>BZ
>
>
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