[Zope] Re: Can't see new Plone installation

[Jochen Knuth]

Hi Brian,

Brian Hickey wrote:
> Hi Jochen,
> 
> Thanks for the info.  This is a strange one - it's a little awkward to find
> out what's going on, as it's a shared hosting facility with some kind of
> virtual private server setup on it.  There seems to be two versions of
> python - 2.3.4 and 2.1.3.  The 2.1.3 was installed when I installed
> Zope-2.6.3.  However, if I call python from the command line, I get 2.3.4.

try e.g. calling python2.1 . If you have an uptodate portssystem you 
have several python ports, which could be installed in parallel, each 
with a seperate lib and sitepackages directory.

lang/python (normally the newest version of python, now 2.4.1, installes
              an executable "python")
lang/python21 (install an executable "python2.1")
lang/python22 (likewise)
lang/python23 (likewise)

> How do I go about updating the version of python that Zope is using?  In
> your experience, do you reckon that will solve the issue?

if you make an update to e.g. python 2.3.x, you would have to reinstall 
Zope (but i don't know if Zope 2.6.3 runs with python 2.3.x)

Also look if the python 2.3.4 is compiled with the option 
"HUGE_STACK_SIZE" set to "on" (you can look at 
/var/db/ports/python23/options) If not, you have to reinstall it with 
this option set.

So you can  either update the python 2.1.3 to the newest version of the 
lang/python21 port (which includes the stacksize patch) and keep running 
the Zope 2.6.3 (but IIRC this is a rather buggy version of Zope) or 
update to the actual versions (Zope 2.7.6 with Python 2.3.5, but Python 
2.3.4 should work too, both)

If you have no Zope-Products installed, that doesn't work with the newer 
version, i would go to the 2.3.x/2.7.6 variant.

> Thanks,
> Brian
> 

Ciao,
Jochen
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