[Zope] Re: Re: Please help newbie access her control manager/panel

[J. Stuff]

Hello again!

After reading the many informative and helpful messages regarding my 
situation, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed and decided to get some p2p help. 
Today at work I asked my boss for help and he was glad to help me. Since 
Zope is installed on windows NT there, he went through many settings and 
areas with me, showing me things to try when I got home. Now that I'm home, 
here's what has been happening:

By means of the Services panel, I found that Zope wasn't started on my home 
machine. After I clicked 'Start' a progress bar filled then disappeared. 
Then a pop-up window told me:
  "The Zope service WebSite on Local Computer started and then stopped.
  Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for
  example, the Performance Logs and Alerts Service."
The only option the window gave was to click 'OK.' I clicked 'OK' and 
changed the startup type to Manual. After clicking 'Start' the same thing 
happened. I changed the startup type back to Automatic.

I then opened a command line and typed in the following:
   netstat -an
and found nothing on port 8080, 8021, or 8090. I think that's because Zope 
wasn't started, but I'm no wiz at this.

Then I ran start.bat and let it sit for twenty minutes hoping some of the 
advice about windows taking a long time to start Zope would prove pertinent 
to my situation. It didn't change from my previous screenshot 
(http://lunamanium.com/startbat.gif).

The questions I have now are:

a. Can I force Zope into doing some work so windowsXP doesn't stop it 
automatically? If so, how?

b. Would changing the port Zope is supposed to run on help at all?

c. Would upgrading help? My boss told me about the page template feature and 
it sounds very intriguing so I may upgrade anyway.

d. Is there hope for me and Zope?

Thank you all very much for your kindness and your assistance.

Jessica Robinson
junkystuph@hotmail.com


>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "J. Stuff" <junkystuph@hotmail.com>
>>To: <zope@zope.org>
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:08 AM
>>Subject: [Zope] Please help newbie access her control manager/panel
>>
>>
>> > Dear Zope Group,
>> >
>> > I am trying to use Zope at home and am wondering if someone might be
>> > willing to help me get started. I have installed Zope 2.4.3 on my new
>> > windowsXP machine, but I can't access the control manager. I've tried
>> > the following URLs:
>> >    http://localhost:8080/manage
>> >    http://127.0.0.1:8080/manage
>> > and was told by my browser (IE 6.0) the "page cannot be displayed."
>> > Since those didn't work, I looked up my computer's hostname: I
>> > typed "hostname" in a command prompt and found it is "joplop-alpha."
>> > So then i tried:
>> >    http://joplop-alpha:8080/manage
>> > Still, "page cannot be displayed." I don't know how to change the
>> > hostname or where it is even located as I am very unfamiliar with
>> > windowsXP.
>> >

>When I try the following:
>   http://localhost:8080
>   http://127.0.0.1:8080
>   http://joplop-alpha:8080
>the browswer says "page cannot be displayed."
>
>If the server is not started, how do I start it? I have already run the
>start.bat. I put a screenshot of what opens when i run it online:
>   http://lunamanium.com/startbat.gif
>I don't see any port information on the start.bat command window

>> > When I run start.bat (as the online zope book instructs) a dos prompt
>> > opens containing the following information:
>> >    C:\Program Files\WebSite>"C:\Program Files\WebSite\bin\python.exe"
>> >    "C:\Program Files\WebSite\z2.py" -D
>> > I have read mentions of the -D being a default debugging setting which
>> > may need to be turned off. How do I turn it off? When I put any of 
>>those
>> > strings into the address area of my web browser, windows wants to know
>>what
>> > program it should use to view it.
>> >
>> > I also ran across an article which suggested one may need to create a
>> > HOSTS file in the windows directory. I don't know how to do that, but I
>> > follow directions very well.
>> >
>> > During my latest installation of Zope I told it to run as a win32
>>service,
>> > if that matters at all. I uninstalled Zope and reinstalled it twice to
>>try
>> > to get it to work - once choosing the manual option instead of the 
>>win32
>> > service option. I have a DSL connection and I don't have any firewall
>> > programs running (I did have Zone Alarm enabled, but turned it of so it
>> > wouldn't interfere). I've looked around on zope.org and egroups' 
>>message
>> > archives for hours and hours now, but have found very little relating 
>>to
>> > this problem.
>> >
>> > I may sound like a person who has no business trying to use Zope, but I
>> > use it at work everyday and love it. I can't wait to get it going at
>> > home. Any help will be unbelievably appreciated.
>> >
>> > THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> >
>> > Jessica Robinson
>> > junkystuph@hotmail.com


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