[Zope] Importing A Plone Instance

garry saddington garry at joydiv.fsnet.co.uk
Tue Jan 6 01:48:00 EST 2004


On Tuesday 06 January 2004 02:09, Tom Purl wrote:
> I was developing a Plone site this afternoon and exported it to a file,
> Plone.zexp.  I then moved that file to the following directory on my
> Debian Linux box:
>
> /var/lib/zope/import
>
> I then go to import the Plone instance by entering Plone.zexp in the
> "Import file name" textbox and click on the "Import" button.  However,
> when I do, I get the following error:
>
> Error Type: IOError
> Error Value: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/lib/zope/instance/default/import/Plone.zexp'
>
> I thought that there might be a problem with permissions because the
> import folder's owner is root and its group is root.  However, *every*
> file in directory associated with Zope shares this trait, and I haven't
> seen any other problems elsewhere.  Also, I'm logged in as a user that
> has Manager and Owner rights over the root folder of my Zope instance.
>
> I googled for some help but couldn't find anything.  Has anyone else
> seen a problem like this?
Yes virtually everytime I import something. Just make sure the permissions 
allow you to read the file if you are not root.
regards
garry

>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Tom Purl
>
>
>
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