[Zope] News article.

2000-12-03 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay



If anyone has a copy of a recent news article in 
the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star about DC, would they please send me a copy to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED].


Thanks...


Re: [Zope] user permissions

2000-07-25 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

I just installed 2.2.  I read that the superuser account cannot edit or add
objects so I set up a user as manager and one as an owner.  The user
accounts are able to add objects but only the superuser account can see them
once they are added.

EX:
I am logged in as user Mike and add  edit a DTML Document.  I complete the
edit and choose change. When I'm returned to the contents the new document
is
not visible.  If I now log in as the superuser, everything is visible but,
of course, cannot be moved, added to, or copied and pasted.

So my question is "What have I not done correctly to have created this catch
22 situation.?"

- Original Message -
From: "Chris McDonough" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "josh on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] user permissions


 No, that should do it.  You cannot add, copy or move objects as the
 superuser, but you can add users to a user folder and change
 permissions.  But there should be no permissions that need changing.
 Make sure that you give the user the 'Manager' role when you add a new
 user (while logged in as superuser).

 josh on wrote:
 
  I just installed 2.2 on win98.
 
  I log on as a superuser, and try and make a new folder an I get:
 
  Zope Error
  
 Zope has encountered an error while publishing this
resource.
  
 Error Type: SuperCannotOwn
 Error Value: Objects cannot be owned by the superuser
 
  So I used to do that I thought.  I tried to make a new acl user, but
  couldn't log in with that name password combo.  I saw that webmaster
asked
  this a couple of days ago, but I saw no answer.
 
  Am I being dumb and missing the obvious?  Do I need to go and read some
how
  to about users and permissions?
 
  any help would be great.
 
  josh on
 
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Re: [Zope] user permissions

2000-07-25 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

Sounds stupido, but I logged on to zope today as the user and can see and do
all.  I really don't get it.  I tried over and over yesterday to get things
working to no avail.  Today, without having logged in previously I added
products.Zcommerce and Session.  Restarted Zope.
I just recieved your mail so I decided to go through all the motions again
from yesterday to tell you exactly what I was doing.  I log in and it is
working fine.

Doh


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From: "Chris McDonough" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "'J. Michael Mc Kay'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Chris McDonough"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; "josh on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:43 AM
Subject: RE: [Zope] user permissions


 I've never heard of anything like this.

 What roles does "Mike" have?  What *does* show up in the Contents screen
 for "Mike"?

  -Original Message-
  From: J. Michael Mc Kay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:02 AM
  To: Chris McDonough; josh on
  Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: [Zope] user permissions
 
 
  I just installed 2.2.  I read that the superuser account
  cannot edit or add
  objects so I set up a user as manager and one as an owner.  The user
  accounts are able to add objects but only the superuser
  account can see them
  once they are added.
 
  EX:
  I am logged in as user Mike and add  edit a DTML Document.
  I complete the
  edit and choose change. When I'm returned to the contents the
  new document
  is
  not visible.  If I now log in as the superuser, everything is
  visible but,
  of course, cannot be moved, added to, or copied and pasted.
 
  So my question is "What have I not done correctly to have
  created this catch
  22 situation.?"
 
  - Original Message -
  From: "Chris McDonough" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: "josh on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 9:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [Zope] user permissions
 
 
   No, that should do it.  You cannot add, copy or move objects as the
   superuser, but you can add users to a user folder and change
   permissions.  But there should be no permissions that need changing.
   Make sure that you give the user the 'Manager' role when
  you add a new
   user (while logged in as superuser).
  
   josh on wrote:
   
I just installed 2.2 on win98.
   
I log on as a superuser, and try and make a new folder an I get:
   
Zope Error

   Zope has encountered an error while publishing this
  resource.

   Error Type: SuperCannotOwn
   Error Value: Objects cannot be owned by the superuser
   
So I used to do that I thought.  I tried to make a new
  acl user, but
couldn't log in with that name password combo.  I saw
  that webmaster
  asked
this a couple of days ago, but I saw no answer.
   
Am I being dumb and missing the obvious?  Do I need to go
  and read some
  how
to about users and permissions?
   
any help would be great.
   
josh on
   
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[Zope] 503 Zope temporarily overloaded

2000-07-13 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

I was looking at stats today and saw this

503: Temporarily overloaded

Can anyone guess at what this might mean?

Thanks


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[Zope] [Repeat] Nt server w/ Zope

2000-07-08 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

Trying again for help.

If I stop Zope as a service from NT's Service Manager or from the Zope
management interface it seems to kick and scream while restarting. In the
application log I see repeated errors stating the service could not start.
These repeat until the application log is full.  Zope appears to be running,
but I have not yet learned how long it is cycling to start.

The error series is essentially, "Starting Zope Service" , "Could not Start
Zope Service" until the log is full.  From there I'm not sure.

Is this a known issue or am I missing a switch setting for start-up?

This does not occur from reboot.  Everything is as normal as I know
normalcy.

Thanks



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[Zope] Restarting with NT

2000-07-04 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

If I stop Zope as a service from NT's Service Manager or from the Zope
management interface it seems to kick and scream while restarting. In the
application log I see repeated errors stating the service could not start.
These repeat until the application log is full.  Zope appears to be running,
but I have not yet learned how long it is cycling to start.

The error series is essentially, "Starting Zope Service" , "Could not Start
Zope Service" until the log is full.  From there I'm not sure.

Is this a known issue or am I missing a switch setting for start-up?

This does not occur from reboot.  Everything is as normal as I know
normalcy.

Thanks


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[Zope] How do say wiki?

2000-07-03 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

What would be an acceptible plural form of wiki,
wikies
wikis
what?

Thanks


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Re: [Zope] Importing data

2000-06-15 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay



Well, I meant that I have some products w/ data 
setup in the new .fs. If I copy the old over then I loose what I am 
currently working on.

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  J. 
  Michael Mc Kay 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 12:26 
  PM
  Subject: [Zope] Importing data
  
  I have a Data.fs file from a previous instal of 
  Zope. How can import parts of that data base to a current 
  data.fs?
  
  I have a product setup in the old .fs that I want 
  to use in the newlike a squishdot for 
instance.


Re: [Zope] Zope, Apache/NT, Reliability issues

2000-06-09 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

Can I jump in?

What is the process involved for pcgi or Zope to pass authentication?  I am
not running Apache, but good old dependable Website Pro. When I attempt to
run Zope via pcgi it works fine unless I want to manage or allow a client to
log into a products administration screens.  I am returned an error when
trying to access, for example, Squishdot admin or Zope manage. On the other
hand users can log into and use the portal product.

Zope is not accepting the management login info. My understanding is not
clear on what Apache does to accept log ins via pcgi.  For that matter the
same for IIS. I am not sure that IIS is really only accepting NTusers. The
reading I have done so far suggests this may be the case.

Zope  Apache are HTTP1.1 compliant? Website is 1.0 or partially 1.1...
can this be part of the problem?  I run into some problems with requests and
compliancy when using newer utilities against the server.

The conversation below suggests that pcgi passes requests to Zope.  I am
confused about this because I am told this is a Website issue, but when
explained in it's simplest terms (below) it appears to be a pcgi or Zope
issue.

The error I am receiving says that the webserver may not be able to forward
cgi requests (? it's been awhile since I looked at it) This doesn't make
sense if pcgi is  passing the info on. I guess I am asking "Where exactly is
authentication breaking down when using pcgior where is it most likely
to break down?

Website has only 15 percent of the NT market share (it's the price tag I'm
sure) and it is hard to find someone to share these experiences with, so
thanks for allowing this intrusion..

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PCGI passes on requests to Zope, where Zope can handle multiple requests at
the same time. Basically, requests are handed over to ZServer ass if the
request came in directly. PCGI takes some care of waiting for ZServer to
become available if it is congested.

So, there is one Zope instance running that can listen to normal HTTP
requests, FTP requests and PCGI requests (any combination of that). The PCGI
CGI's are fielded on requests coming though Apache and hand back the results
to the client.

 And what about the method of "masquerading" the ZServer through Apache?
 I have read solutions using the Rewrite module and the Proxy module, but
 it actually means (roughly speaking) that if there are 10 requests
 made to Apache then it will make 10 requests to ZServer so, considering
 only the reliability issue of the server even if Apache can handle
 millions of requests per second, the ZServer would fall down much faster
 than that so I cannot see any advantage of using Apache in front of it.
 Of course I understand the other advantages of Apache as it´s many
 configuration options, robustness as a web server, etc, but can the
 ZServer stay up and running in pair with Apache? Maybe there´s any way
 to configure Apache to cache the pages -- as a Squid would -- so it can
 "filter" the requests and low the requests level that it will do to
 ZServer?

People generally use Apache for combining Zope with other content. Zope is
good at serving dynamic content, Apache at static, so if you serve Zope
behind
Apache, you can mix and match. Also, when you have existing CGI, PHP or
other
Apache dependant content that you want to make available from the same base
URL, you will need to use Apache in front of Zope.

You can, IIRC, use tge ProxyPass trick together with caching as well,but I
have no experience with that. There is one big disadvantage to using
ProxyPass
at the moment, which is that you need to use the SiteAccess product to make
it
work correctly. The SiteAccess product has some known issues and causes
regressions in parts of Zope, like the ZCatalog. These issues _shold_ be
solved with the upcoming 2.2 release of Zope.

 And what about it´s object oriented database? I also have some doubts
 about it. I worked a lot with relational databases as MS SQL and MySQL
 but never tried to study an OO approach to DB. How fast it is? How much
 requests can it handle without hanging, collapsing or corrupting data? I
 mean, anyone tried to do some study of a database that changes everytime
 and have queries everytime, I mean, searches in a database where it´s
 data changes constantly (searching a static database is much different
 than searching on a mutable one). Row level locking, transaction,
 consistency, etc, all these concepts apply here? Can it be substituted
 by a traditional relational database and have it´s contentes interfaced
 to "looks like" object oriented?

The ZODB, Zope's Object Database, is an integral part of Zope. As soon as
you
look at Zope through the management interface, you are looking at objects
stored in the ZODB. Zope is inherently OO, and you generally use object
instances to build your site.

The ZODB is transactional, is optimized for high reads, low writes, and
takes
care of access conflicts not by locking, but invalidating all connections

Re: [Zope] What is favicon.ico and why is it an error?

2000-06-07 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

Internet explorer is looking for an favicon.ico or a custom icon file that
customizes your bookmark entry into a users book mark list.  If you get an
icon editor and make a custom icon 16x16, I think, icon then you can put it
in your home directory and when someone bookmarks the site they will see
your cute little icon in their bookmarks.
Now that you have done this, you have to put it in every directory
accessible to IE to prevent excessive logging of errors on your server.

- Original Message -
From: "J. Atwood" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] What is "favicon.ico" and why is it an error?


 So even though there are no references to it in the HTML MIE is looking
for
 it? Is there anyway to fool it? Can I just put a blank DTML Document? Why
 would MIE be checking the server for that file?

 Add this to the many reasons that I hate MIE!

 J


  On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, J. Atwood wrote:
  As it looks for this "favicon.ico"
 
  M$ IE is looking for this file to provide some "niceness" on a page.
  Search Internet for longer explanations - there are many.
 
  Oleg.(All opinions are mine and not of my employer)
  
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[Zope] V2.2

2000-06-05 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

I see the ownership tab in the new Zope.  Where can I find some more info on
this.  Currently my setup says Zope has no owner.

Apparently it needs one


- Original Message -
From: "Oleg Broytmann" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "JÛrgen Skogstad" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 4:37 AM
Subject: [Zope] Re: SV: [Zope] Q: Link status/checking


Hi!

On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, JÛrgen Skogstad wrote:
 Sure! I just did a quick read through of the url you posted and it
 looks to me that you've started with what I want. I am very interested
 in getting this to work within the Zope framework as well.. with
 Sql support etc. as I am doing a project that would require "robotic"
 features! ;) Don't we just hate manual labour. ;)

   Well, the weakiest point in my programs is that these programs operate
on the whole tree at once. This isn't a problem for my small database of
URLs - there are about 3000 URLs in my bookmarks; but certainly will bring
problems for those who would like to have a bigger DB.

   What I feel is that Zope is not by itself the way to go. It is hard to
store the entire URLs tree in Zope and operate via XML-RPC or whatever. I
thing much better approach will be to store the tree in separate database
(SQL, e.g.) and connect both the robot and Zope to the DB.

   While we are on subjject - I think about version 4 of the project. I
want to define clear APIs for database plugins (including the possibility
to operate on a part of DB, down to one URL at at time :) and robots; and
remove writers plugins entirely - writers are just storage managers,
actually.
   It is interesting, whow in time Andrew Kuchling announced Oedipus. His
announcement came few days after I realized that I need API to operate on a
part of DB and started to think about version 4.
   http://oedipus.sourceforge.net/
We need a DB plugin to connect my robot to Oedipus; and Zope Product...

Oleg.(All opinions are mine and not of my employer)

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[Zope] e-tailer Mailhost

2000-06-05 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

I'm have some difficuties with e-tailer and setting up mailhost.  Where is
the best location for mailhost.
I have a directory structure like this:

/a_la_cart/mailhost
/a_la_cart/e-tailer

Mailhost is in the a_la_cart directory with the e-tailer account.  In "order
management", when I enter the address to recieve orders, submit it, the
management area does not update but errs out instead.

I am trying to set-up multiple e-tailers and have them all send mail from
each e-tailer.

thanks.


- Original Message -
From: "Terry Kerr" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Graham Chiu" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] E-Commerce solution using Python and Zope.


 Graham Chiu wrote:

  
  these problems were fixed...it was only a problem initially caused by
an
  upgrade.
  
 
  Hi,
 
  A couple of other things.  On your front page, the non-hilighted 'demo'
  image is broken.  If you go to www.adroit.com there are more broken
images.
  You may not be seeing them if they're in your cache.

  Also, your shopping cart is still broken.
 
  Try this
 
  1. select an image and place into cart.
  2. go to check out
  3. don't enter any details and click on buy
  4. It then asks for credit card details - when it shouldn't really allow
you
  this far
  5. Then just keep backing out and the cart empties out :-(
 
  I downloaded the latest checkout but haven't had to a chance to see
where
  the bug is.
 

 Ok...I found the bug that allows you to buy without entering any details
I can
 fix it.

 Yes, after you have entered the checkout, you cannot back out.  This was
just
 overlooked...it will be fixed.

 
  Otherwise it looks quite good, though I would prefer a solution that
uses a
  relational database to save data. ( My own Zope Ecommerce site has about
  24,000 items which would be a bit painful to add items using a through
the
  web interface. )
 

 We didn't use a relational database because it is way too is too complex
for
 the intended use of the product.  The idea behind e-tailer was to have an
 ecommerce product which is extremely simple and quick to setup.   Setting
up a
 shop is as simple as adding an e-tailer from the manage screen of a
folder.  It
 takes less that 5 minutes to have the shop fully setup and ready to go and
 accepting secure credit information.  I don't know of any other ecommerce
 products that are that easy to setup.   Besides, there are no easy ways to
 manipulate an SQL backend like we do with the e-tailer catalog.  Things
like
 adding and remove product properties, and giving properties to categories
that
 all the products within that category will aquire, and having products and
 categories aquiring template styles, etc.  This is all very difficult if
not
 impossible to acheive with a flat relational database.

 We never intended for e-tailer to hold 24000 items!  Although i dont see
any
 problem with this.  We have done some tests with over 5 cataloged
items in
 a zodb and searching was fine.  I agree that adding 24000 items through a
web
 interface would be painful ;-)  We need to create a tool that can upload
items
 from other storages so that this kind of process can be speed up.

 Having said all that, we are looking at possibly integrating a backend
 relational database.

 Any more feedback is greatly appreciated! ;-)

 terry


 
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[Zope] Stats

2000-05-31 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

Should most stats generators be able to read zope server logs?
- Original Message -
From: "Hugo Ramos" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Site Powered by Zope


 Yellow,

 Are you trying to imply that ZopersORG (www.zopers.org) isn't a large
site?
 :-

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 From: "Andrew Kenneth Milton" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 7:25 AM
 Subject: [Zope] Site Powered by Zope


  Hrm I just went to applixware.com to look for updates for Applixware
  (UNIX Office suite), and they've become VistaSource.com.
 
  Down the bottom of their site is the venerable "Powered By Zope" icon.
 
  I knew they'd started a new Open Source development plan, but, its still
  good to see large-ish sites running Zope.



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Re: [Zope] Re: [ZDP] Re: [Zope] The agony of the ZOPE Documentation

2000-05-25 Thread J. Michael Mc Kay

Well, let me see.  I would consider giving the summer to working on Zope
Documentation in Exchange for Zope School.  That's right, I'm as much a
newbie to Zope as that egg they are breaking in the Perl2Zope thread.  But I
live 20 minutes from Zope Headquarters.Fredericksburg, eh?  I like
working long hours and am probably going to be available through mid
august/september.
The downside is that I am "really new" to zope and python. The upside is
that I'm into it It would be a good backgrounder for that book I've
always wanted to write about something...




- Original Message -
From: "Chris Withers" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Jason Cunliffe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 4:47 PM
Subject: [Zope] Re: [ZDP] Re: [Zope] The agony of the ZOPE Documentation


Jason Cunliffe wrote:

  I reckon there's about 25 man weeks of work to do based on 5 people
  spending:
  -1 week to build the tools
  -1 week to plan the structure of the documentation
  -3 weeks to get ALL the Zope documentation linked in one place (which is
  what zdp is supposed to be...)
 
  So, has anyone got the cash? ;-)

 Well I have asked a few times before, before but never a reply.. so I will
 ask again:

 How much would it cost? (U$?)

Based on the above figures, and assuming £500/day/person, it comes out
as:

£62,500 (roughly $100,000)

 Perhaps you have no time but some money..

Personally, I have neither ;-)

 resources to go round. And money might really help out here...

I agree, I would love to do it, and I'm sure my employer wouldn't mind
if someone else was footing the bill ;-)

 It seems like rather a catch-22 [or is that a zope-22] :  until the docs
are
 in better shape, it is so much harder for more people to contribute
usefully
 because it is so easy to get lost again..

I agree :-)

 ZDPLINE.COM ??

$ whois zdpline.com

Whois Server Version 1.1

Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

No match for "ZDPLINE.COM".

Well, the name is there... ;-)

cheers,

Chris



 Perhaps someone with better dtml skills than I can make a little mini
 priceline.com app for zdp..

 Everyone/Anyone wishing to contribute something towards documentation logs
 on and enters the amount:
 instant tally shows total potential sponsorship with column for
 person-hours/days at rate. Instead of a well intentioned message thread
 which will be rapidly drownded in a sea of DTML minutuae, we can have
 visible target + 'potential' zdp attractor

 When we hit a 'u$eful 'threshold - $ponsors kick in with their actual
 contrib. and zdp advances.
 Perhaps you have a better crazier idea..I hope so:-)

 Meanwhile, some fascinating and surreal reading:
 Interview with Jay Walker
 http://www.strategy-business.com/thoughtleaders/00209/page1.html

 my $0.25
 - Jason

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