Re: [Zope] Openflow_ZPygresqlDA_products_broken_on_ZMI
Hi Smita, On 08/12/2010 14:32, Smita Kamdar wrote: Can I install ZPygresqlDA without uninstalling ZPsycopgDA on the same m/c? Will it work properly? If it works properly I will install ZPygresqlDA-0.0.3 on dev Linux box again import my source code check whether it still appears broken? I'm not aware of a reason that ZPygresqlDA and ZPsycopgDA should not co-exist, but I really don't know anything about ZPygresqlDA. Having an extra product in your target environment should not cause problems when importing, but having products missing or at mismatched versions is very likely to cause problems importing. Please help me so that I can progress accordingly. If this doesn’t work I will install all the products on dev with the same version as the products on live as suggested by you. This is the most sensible thing to do. It would help us to help you if you could explain why you are reluctant to do this in the first place. -- Regards, PhilK 'work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation' - alasdair gray ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] problem installing Openflow product of zope on LINUX
Hi Smita, On 07/12/2010 15:26, Smita Kamdar wrote: I have already installed the following products on my dev RedHat LINUX m/c – 1) Zope-2.11.4 2) Python-2.4.4 3) Egenix-2.0.6 4) Postgresql-7.4.13 5) Psycopg-1.1.6 6) OpenFlow-1.1.0 on the live m/c also all these products are installed with a mismatch in versions of the products. Only in case of Database Adapter instead of ZPsycopgDA, ZPygresqlDA is installed on live. Is there a reason that you are using ZPsycopgDA instead of ZPygresqlDA? You should set the two environments up identically. But still when I import my project’s source code (i.e. .zexp file) from live to dev m/c all the code is imported successfully except it gives errors in Pygresql_Database_Connection OpenFlow. For Pygresql_Database_Connection Openflow it gives error as ‘This object from PygresqlDA product is broken’ ‘This object from OpenFlow product is broken’ respectively. If you are importing a zexp that contains a ZPygresqlDA connection and the ZPygresqlDA product is not properly installed, you will indeed have broken objects - that would apply to ZPsycopgDA too, of course. If you want to use the imported objects, you must have the same products installed (at the same versions). I don't know anything about ZPygresqlDA (or OpenFlow, for that matter), but I've had similar problems with ZPsycopgDA, so the following may be of some help: - First, is your DA correctly installed? Take a look at the Control Panel in the ZMI, and scroll down to the DA itself - does it have a broken product icon? If so, this may be because the associated python-level product (which would be Psycopg itself in the case of ZPsycopgDA) is not correctly installed. N.B. You may have to install libpq-dev to compile it. Second, is the DA actually usable? Even if it appears installed properly in the Control Panel, it's worth testing by setting up a new connection to your database. If you have a good setup, and the error is still thrown, you would still need to zap the old product's connection and replace it with the new product's equivalent, of course Formally, you are on your own importing a zexp file into a target environment that differs from the source environment. If the above does not help, then I'd go back and make the necessary changes to make them match before spending a lot of time on this. HTH -- Regards, PhilK 'work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation' - alasdair gray ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] anyone heard of Zamasing?
Hi Tim, Tim Nash wrote: It is great to see more posts about how well zope works for Web 2.0 projects. I have used extjs with zope and really like the combination. I'd like to learn more about your jquery /plone setup and how you make it work. Would it be a time consuming for you to create a generic product that demonstrates your setup? It would be helpful to have a common set of artifacts to discuss. Am happy to share - it's all very simple stuff, the elements just work very elegantly together. I'm stringing other people's pearls here - the tools are great, putting them together is trivial. However, having got the elements together, I'm now moving from a TTW approach (yes, I know - I'm a dinosaur!) to a Product approach, which is going to be a pretty steep learning curve for me. I need to document my starting point (which is effectively a common folder of scripts and templates, which the working pages access by acquisition), so I'll post a link to the list asking for feedback when I'm at that point. N.B. This is going to take me at least a couple of weeks - I've got some paying work to finish off before I can move on to that. I've got a proof of concept set of templates without Formulator or any RDBMS interaction that I did somewhere. It's only about three templates and a scrip. I'll post them when I find them, so that you can see how Taconite works with ZPTs, which is the most joyful part of it for me. -- Regards, PhilK 'work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation' - alasdair gray ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] anyone heard of Zamasing?
Hi Tom, Tom Von Lahndorff wrote: Thats pretty awesome. It's zamazing to me that Zope 2 is not a de facto platform for Web 2.0 projects. I think it has some major benefits over Rails and maybe even Django but there seems to be no interest in it from that community. This is a great start. I agree that it's a great platform for Web 2.0 projects - I'm a happy RDBMS developer, using Zope as an application server against Postgres dbs. I find that Formulator, ZPTs and simple scripts on the server side and JQuery on the client side (specifically, the JQuery Taconite implementation [1] with XML ZPTs) work wonderfully together. My interest is pretty narrow, in the sense that I'm all about RDBMSs, tabular data, and form-driven data entry - the less guff between me the and the RDBMS, the happier I am. However, if I don't have much to say, it's only because TTW Zope development using these tools is so easy. If there is any interest in discussing this stuff, I am up for that. Having said all that, I'm happy enough with the ZMI as it is, so Zamasing is only of academic interest to me. FWIW, all these techniques can also be made to work seamlessly inside Plone without doing any actual Plone development, which can be handy (you really only need to work with Plone's CSS to make it look consistent) - a server side mash-up which avoids all the cross-site scripting stuff, if you like. [1] http://www.malsup.com/jquery/taconite/ -- Regards, PhilK 'work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation' - alasdair gray ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] extract page title
Hi Dean,
Dean Hale wrote:
I'm trying to implement some web tracking code within a page template,
however a little stuck.
In the code below i'd like to append the page template - page title
between the title tags dynamically rather than having to manually add
to each page
script language='JavaScript1.1' type='text/javascript'
noscript
img src=http://domain/xxx/xxx/s?websitename.PAGETITLE;
width=1 height=1 alt=
/noscript
/script
do you have any advise please on how this could be done?
I've re-read this thread about four times now, and am having a lightbulb
moment.
Do you mean that you wish to dynamically form the tag: -
img
src=http://domain/xxx/xxx/s?websitename.PAGETITLE;
width=1
height=1
alt=
...such that PAGETITLE is the title of the current page?
If so, you need to bone up on tal:attributes, because you need to do
something like: -
img
tal:attributes=src string:http://url?sitename.${here/title_or_id};
src=http://domain/xxx/xxx/s?websitename.PAGETITLE;
width=1
height=1
alt=
(Untested - but you get the idea)
HTH
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PhilK
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Re: [Zope] Zope 2.6.4 + Win32 server
Hi David, David VanKirk wrote: I'm trying to migrate from a Linux server with Oracle to a win32 server with MS SQL Server. I need to run it behind a webserver so that I can connect through SSL. I've tried IIS, Apache + PCGI, and Apache + FastCGI. Has anyone been able to successfully run a Zope + win32 Web Server successfully, that can help. I run Zope behind Apache on Windows for several projects, some with MS SQL server. I'm very happy using Zope behind Apache on Windows, and have always been happy with the standard setup - never had to use PCGI or FastCGI. I also use Zope Plone (in the form of Enfold Server) behind IIS in one case, but frankly the IIS aspect is not one I am 100% happy with. What problems are you having? Do you actually need PCGI/FastCGI? -- Regards, PhilK 'let's hear it for the vague blur' ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Zope 2.6.4 + Win32 server
Hi David, Please stay on the list - have added back in as CC. David VanKirk wrote: I was under the impression that you needed PCGI or FastCGI to get Zope and Apache to communicate. If you have another method, I'm open to try it. No, not at all - in fact FastCGI at least is deprecated in current versions. Just be informed that I'm using an older version of Zope (2.6.4) so if there have been advancements that have been made since then with communicating with Apache, I'm not able to use those. Well, if you need Apache or IIS for SSL support, and you do not need to have SSL for the link between Apache and Zope, then there is nothing exotic at all involved. There are 3rd party solutions to use IIS (which cannot proxy on its own), but Apache is all you need. The Zope book has the gist here: - http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/VirtualHosting.stx That's the latest version, but the version on the Zope site is for 2.6, and as you can see little has changed: - http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/VirtualHosting.stx The gist is: - - Zope serves over HTTP. - Apache can /proxy/ HTTP. - The Zope Virtual Host Monster can rewrite the URLs generated by Zope to those required to pass the traffic through Apache. You don't need to do anything on the Zope side other than ensure that the VHM is present - all the work is done by a rewrite rule in the Apache virtual hosts setup. The rewrite rules can be fiddly, and a great resource is the Rewrite Rule Witch: - http://betabug.ch/zope/witch I've mainly done this with Apache 2.0.x, but I have used the same basic setup under 1.3.x - I can't recall if there were any great differences, but I still have one running server with 1.3.x on it, so I should be able to help either way. Can I suggest that you read up and have a play, and come back with any specific questions? I found the rewrite rules very fiddly at first, but soon got used to them - you might need some patience to get to grips with that part, but that's the only bit that caused me any pain. You don't say how you will be connecting Zope to MS SQL Server, but I can recommend the eGenix ODBC DA - it's not free, but it's not expensive either, and if you value your time at all it's cheaper and safer than doing it any other way... HTH! -- Regards, PhilK 'let's hear it for the vague blur' ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Zope 2.6.4 + Win32 server
Hi David,
Once again, please stay on the list - you need to hit reply to all.
David VanKirk wrote:
I appreciate your help and links, but I'm still not getting anything.
I did say it was fiddly!
I've go to get some urgent stuff out of the way, but I'll have some
time later and will do a fully worked example.
In the meantime...
I enabled the proxy_module to use with the P option on the rewrite rule.
I've also added the following line to my VirtualHost section:
RewriteRule ^($|/.*)
http://127.0.0.1:8080/VirtualHostBase/https/%{SERVER_NAME}:443/VirtualHostRoot$1
[L,P]
but when I go to http://127.0.0.1/manage I get a Forbidden error.
You can turn on some logging in Apache for rewrites.
I did setup the Virtual Host Monster in Zope, so if I were to
construct the URL like the ReWrite rule does manually, it starts to
load the page, but the frames all have 404 errors because it's
querying Apache on port 443 for the resources after Zope returns the
VHMed URL.
Is this an application that loads in a frame-set?
Maybe you could send me a copy of you httpd.conf/ssl.conf files so I
can see if there's something I'm missing?
I'll send an annotated version.
--
Regards,
PhilK
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Re: [Zope] cpu load 99 percent a lot in plone evinironment
Hi Jamie, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: Very useful. I've based my system on the first link because I didn't need to use POSTs, I just add ?foo=bar to the end of the URL and get it as normal. I added the ability to load a list of urls and element ids one after the other, then only activate the submit button at the bottom of the page when the whole form was loaded. This means the top of the page loads quickly, and the rest loads section by section before people scroll down to it. I was thinking I would have to do something like this, and your links made it really easy. I'm really pleased to hear it. I came across AHAH as I was investigating AJAX. I'd been dreading using AJAX, partly because it would mean a good deal of reworking of existing applications, partly because of the learning curve. For my applications, AHAH has turned out to be a better solution, and it's a bonus that it is so easy to implement. -- Regards, PhilK 'let's hear it for the vague blur' ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] cpu load 99 percent a lot in plone evinironment
Hi Robert (Jamie?), Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: I've been having similar speed problems with a page that loops through a lot of SQL records. From what I can tell from the profiler, it is the security machinery that is at fault. I'm doing the same sort of stuff, and routinely have the same sorts of problems. Two other things that I've done that help are: - - Use the database to handle pagination, such that a single page of data is returned - Plone/Zope batching can be very slow with huge data sets (which to be fair it was never designed for). This is easy with PostgreSQL and there is a work around for SQL Server. - Instead of simply embedding my dataset (sometimes multiple datasets) in the page, use AHAH to pull in a panel of data into the existing page as a pure Zope transaction. This makes the UI a lot more fluid by avoiding multiple redundant Plone page loads (e.g. during pagination, or when doing drill-down type navigation). AHAH does not seem to be much discussed here - it's worth reading: - http://microformats.org/wiki/rest/ahah http://www.gizax.it/ahahsection/ (I have based my work on the script in the second link) Short version: uses AJAX-like technique of rewriting the HTML using JavaScript, but returns pure HTML as opposed to XML or JSON, so trivial to implement, and can degrade gracefully. HTH -- Regards, PhilK 'let's hear it for the vague blur' ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Zope Alternative
Michael, michael nt milne wrote: Is there a reason that the Plone list gets 3 times the level of postings that the Zope list gets? Yes. because it is a more mature and constructive support environment which actually helps promote the product. Bollocks. :-) -- Regards, PhilK Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. -John M. Ford ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Zope and Log File Analysis
Hi, Doyon, Jean-Francois wrote: Ah yes, indeed, I could do custom logging ... But then I'd have to worry about the performance impact, the fact that because these logs would be custom, I'd need custom analysis tools as well (unless I can make it compatible somehow?) ... And so on ... We'd much rather stick with more standard solutions! Have you seen: - http://www.zope.org/Members/sbrauer/Webalizer-CT/README -- Regards, PhilK Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. —John M. Ford ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Upgrading Zope
Hi, Nightflyer wrote: I'd like to know if you think that such migration is feasible or if I'll encounter some problems. Do you think it is better to migrate to the latest version of the 2.x or 3.x branch? From 2.1.x to the latest 2.x should be feasible. Zope 3.x is a rewrite with no upgrade path, so that's not an option. The best route is probably to try it on a development server and report back with any issues. Which RDBMS are you using your ZSQL Methods against? -- Regards, PhilK Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. —John M. Ford ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: R: [Zope] Upgrading Zope
Hi Andrew, Nightflyer wrote: Which RDBMS are you using your ZSQL Methods against? MySQL 4.1. From what you tell us, the database adapter is the only 3rd-party dependency, and (although I don't use it myself) I understand mySQL is well-supported, so you really need to try the upgrade on a development machine to find out. The Very Old Zope section in the link to ZopeWiki that Paul sent should get you going... -- Regards, PhilK Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. —John M. Ford ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Zope 2 for Windows
Michael, michael nt milne wrote: ignorant thinking. Most businesses use Windows and Zope will suffer unless it is embraced. Volunteer to look after Windows if you want to fix this, but do not insult those who have volunteered to look after other platforms. Re-read what Andreas said (there is no current maintainer, we do not have a volunteer, in essence) and what you said (ignorant thinking), and see if you can spot your mistake - you are attacking Andreas for not taking ownership of a platform he does /not/ use, in the context of his work to look after a platform he /does/ use. You really do need to stop shooting from the hip. -- Regards, PhilK Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. —John M. Ford ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] zope gets killed on startup
Hi Martijn, Martijn Pieters wrote: Note that Plone 2.5 uses PlonePAS, which for some reason feels the need to replace the root-level acl_users folder when you create a Plone site. I've just been bitten by this, and aren't at all happy. Is there any reason I can't zap this and revert to a standard acl_users folder? I presume I'll need to do emergency user stuff to do this, but I'm really not comfortable about having something unnecessarily complex in my root - I might not feel this way if I could find more docs on PlonePAS, but I can't, so I do! -- Regards, PhilK Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. —John M. Ford ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope-DB] windows 2003 and sql server 2000
Hi, shahrzad khorrami wrote: Is there any body to know that what is the problem with windows 2003 and sql server 2000 ?I can't setup sql server2000 in windows 2003 ! Your question is off-topic for this list (they are both M$ products, after all), but FYI SQL Server needs to have service pack(s) applied (don't recall to which level) to work under Windows Server 2003. You should be able to install it, but you should not start it until you have service-packed it. -- Regards, PhilK Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate. —John M. Ford ___ Zope-DB mailing list Zope-DB@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-db
Re: [Zope] zope hosting
Hi David, David H wrote: My understanding is that Zettai is closing down. Bummer cause I have been using them. Just looking for Zope Host recommendations I've moved to HSR from Zettai, and am very happy. I did the migration myself, as I wanted to do it step by step, but: - http://highspeedrails.com/Weblog/archive/2006/09/06/free-migrations-for-zettai-customers HTH -- Regards, PhilK someone who experiments with the limitations of systems for intellectual curiosity ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: Zope behind iis
Hi Max, Max M wrote: (Having seen a server wiped out via an IIS security hole, I just don't trust it on a public IP - long time ago, but once bitten, twice shy!) Hmmm ... then try making a mistake in your apache httpd.conf and turn on proxy by mistake. Sure - but I'm much more worried about mistakes that others have made that I could not possibly know about. Within limits, I can do something to manage my own risk, and in any event it is my responsibility - but I don't want to buy an unquantifiable risk off someone else. -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] MailBoxer Question
Hi Beno, beno wrote: Well, all I know is that Pound has a strong following of Zopistas that use it in combination with Zope (and without Apache) for high volume production work and seem to be happy. Odd, then, that you have not had much input on the list about that. I can't provide numbers, but the people I speak to/work with all use Apache or Enfold. My domain is xfr.co.uk, and I have a mail host called smtp (because that is what it serves). So, the token yourMailHost refers to the mail host name and the yourDomain refers to the domain name, so to send me mail, you make an SMTP connection to smtp.xfr.co.uk. Ah! So *that's* what it meant! Thank you! I'm glad I was able to help. Since I have, can I ask you to consider the flak you have had on the list and learn from it, please? Specifically: - - The shouting (all caps, multiple exclamation marks) is likely to discourage people from helping you. - Stephan's comments about different cultures is something you need to take on board. I appreciate that your frustration combined with a certain Germanic bluntness was a fatal combination, but these guys were trying to help you and you roundly abused them. I've hard a hard time learning to fly Zope - I've been using it for over five years, but I learn more every day, and initially the learning curve was very steep and I spent a lot of time as frustrated as you have been. This list and it's relatives (DB, ZPT) got me through that, and I like to try to help where I can in return - so I like to see the list dynamics /work/. -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Zope behind iis
Hi Chris, Chris Withers wrote: Personally, I'd just put Apache in front of both Zope and IIS... Me too - simpler, better documented, safer. (Having seen a server wiped out via an IIS security hole, I just don't trust it on a public IP - long time ago, but once bitten, twice shy!) -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] MailBoxer Question
Hi, beno wrote: Apache duplicates 95% of what Zope's server does, so if you're only using Zope, then it's un-elegant to use Apache. Not so - Apache is a mature production web server, Zope is an application server that serves over HTTP, but it's HTTP server is *not* designed for production use. the rewrite rules you have to throw at Apache are awkward You may think so, but they are the supported, documented solution: - http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/VirtualHosting.stx Zope can't handle cgi scirpts That is because Zope is an application server, not a web server. I find the tokens yourMailHost and yourDomain terribly unclear. I simply don't understand that. It's off topic, but here goes: - My domain is xfr.co.uk, and I have a mail host called smtp (because that is what it serves). So, the token yourMailHost refers to the mail host name and the yourDomain refers to the domain name, so to send me mail, you make an SMTP connection to smtp.xfr.co.uk. What's the problem? -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] MailBoxer Question
Hi Chris, Chris Withers wrote: numpty. That is /such/ a great word! -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] MailBoxer Question
Hi Chris, Chris Withers wrote: numpty. That is /such/ a great word! My thanks to Tim Penhey for re-introducing me to it :-) First said to me by a distressed Scots techie - Is that guy a numpty, or what?, and I hear it in my head in a Scots accent to this day. UrbanDictionary.com has great examples, and tells us that it is indeed Scots... -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Logging client IPs to Z2.log
Hi Oliver, Oliver Hookins wrote: I'd missed that you were using the reverse proxy technique - I'd strongly recommend rewrite rules. Without meaning to be greedy, can you suggest an example? As Jonathan says, the Zope book has examples. The most recent version I'm aware of is at: - http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/VirtualHosting.stx The Rewrite Rules Witch is a handy resource, too: - http://www.betabug.ch/zope/witch/ HTH! -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Logging client IPs to Z2.log
Hi Oliver, Oliver Hookins wrote: So... is it at all possible to log the real client IPs in Z2.log using mod_proxy? If not what is going to happen when (and if) PCGI/FCGI support is removed? FCGI is already unsupported, It may be that you need to reconfigure apache, have a look at the apache docs: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html What do you mean by reconfigure? If the directives I have used weren't supported then httpd would have complained on restart. This is clearly not the problem. Not necessarily - Jonathan may have been suggesting that Apache can do things /differently/, as opposed to that it is /wrongly/ configured. Surely I'm not the only one who has run into this issue, or is everyone else steadfastly sticking to ZServer or PCGI/FCGI? I have exactly that issue, and I recommend that you consider Apache to be the web server and Zope the application server, and that logging client IPs is the web server's job. Very few people use PCGI/FCGI (less all the time), most run Zope behind Apache. -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Logging client IPs to Z2.log
Hi Oliver, Oliver Hookins wrote: Exactly. Instead of using apache as a reverse proxy, set up rewrite rules and then you can pass along the ip address (if you really need it). ...[snip]... Hmmm sounds like what I suspected is actually true... well at least I won't spend time bashing my head against a wall. Thanks for all your (very speedy) help everyone! I'd missed that you were using the reverse proxy technique - I'd strongly recommend rewrite rules. HTH -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] ZJetDA product and Microsoft Access
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: Thanks a lot. Yes I know it's crazy but some organisations built up a database over the years and want to stay with that technology. The best way would be to migrate but I can understand why it doesn't happen. I understand - but the migration from Access to Access-over-SQL-Server is pretty simple, and now that a usable version of SQL Server is free (as in beer) in most cases (certainly those where Access was ever a reasonably choice), I will never use the JET database engine again! -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] ZJetDA product and Microsoft Access
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: I know it's totally crazy to want to hook Access up with Zope using sql queries but I'd just like to know if it's been done or is possible. Crazy on so many levels.../but/, although I can't tell you anything about the DA you are asking about, I can very strongly recommend the eGenix mxODBC DA - using that product, it is possible, and does work. -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] installing zope with appropriate python version
Hi Noah, Noah wrote: The zope installed is telling me it is going to use the older version of python of 2.3.5 . Is this proper and welcome behavior? Yes... The optimum Python version (2.3.5) was found at /usr/local/bin/python2.3. - Zope top-level binary directory will be /opt/Zope-2.8. ...as 2.3.x was the version for Zope 2.8.x - from memory, Zope was only certified with Python 2.4.x for the 2.9.x series. -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Inavlid Refernce Counts in Temporary Storage
Hi Dieter, Dieter Maurer wrote: You may see a bug in the pack implementation for TemporaryStorage. Aha - well, my Zope version is 2.8.6 - I'll dig to see if this version is affected. Few people will probably try to pack a TemporaryStorage... Are you shure to need it? No, not as such - I'm having problems with Conflict Errors, when I try to store variables in the session. The system has not changed in any way that I can see is relevant, and is not under heavy load (10 users accessing the pages in question), so I was trying to examine the behaviour of the temporary storage and satisfy myself that is was healthy. From what you say, it may be that this error is entirely down to the pack bug, so I'm back to trying to figure out how to troubleshoot the conflict error. -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] Inavlid Refernce Counts in Temporary Storage
Hi All, I have an RDBMS application, which resides in a Plone site, but uses only Zope techniques. Aside from Plone, the only use of the ZODB is to hold session variables for users (search parameters etc.), and the load on that part of the system is very light (10 users, accessing the script in question once every couple of minutes at the most). The session variables are written by simple TTW Python scripts, and read back by TALES expressions - all very simple. For the last three days, we have been plagued by slowdowns and temporary lock-ups, which have on a couple of score occasions culminated in a Conflict Error, indicting transactional problems in the temporary storage. On four or five occasions, Zope has apparently locked up, and a restart has been required. Today, I am seeing errors when I try to pack this storage: - -- 2006-07-13T15:09:11 ERROR Zope.SiteErrorLog http://10.0.0.7:8080/Control_Panel/Database/temporary/manage_pack Traceback (most recent call last): File D:\PROGRA~1\ENFOLD~1\Zope\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 114, in publish request, bind=1) File D:\PROGRA~1\ENFOLD~1\Zope\lib\python\ZPublisher\mapply.py, line 88, in mapply if debug is not None: return debug(object,args,context) File D:\PROGRA~1\ENFOLD~1\Zope\lib\python\ZPublisher\Publish.py, line 40, in call_object result=apply(object,args) # Type scr to step into published object. File D:\Program Files\Enfold Server\Zope\lib\python\App\ApplicationManager.py, line 426, in manage_pack t=db.pack(t) File D:\PROGRA~1\ENFOLD~1\Zope\lib\python\ZODB\DB.py, line 634, in pack self._storage.pack(t, referencesf) File D:\PROGRA~1\ENFOLD~1\Zope\lib\python\tempstorage\TemporaryStorage.py, line 350, in pack self._takeOutGarbage(oid) File D:\PROGRA~1\ENFOLD~1\Zope\lib\python\tempstorage\TemporaryStorage.py, line 321, in _takeOutGarbage raise ReferenceCountError, ( ReferenceCountError: An error occured while decrementing a reference to an object in the commit phase. The object's reference count was below zero. (Oid '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00;' had refcount -1) -- This seems to indicate that the temporary storage is corrupt in some way - am I right? If so, what do I do about it? Could this indicate a RAM or disk problem, since the application has not changed significantly, at least at the level of my TTW code? Any input welcome - aside from this simple use of the session, I never have to manipulate the ZODB, so this is pretty new to me! -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] manage_changeProperties has strange side effect on response Content-Type.
Hi Andreas, Andreas Jung wrote: 'Hustype' is pure ASCII...this will *always* have the same encoding in almost all encodings (except in Klingon). [klingon] ghaH ghItlhta' Daq [ASCII] ;-) -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope-DB] A web based rewards management system for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Bob, Since this is somewhat off topic for this list, I have replied to Philip directly, cc'ing yourself. Bottom line: Implementing something like this with Plone and some RDBMS integration should be relatively simple. For my own part, I think that the RDBMS route has advantages over a pure Plone route (hey, that's why I'm on this list!), but it's important to acknowledge that others would disagree. -- Regards, PhilK Human language continually changes, innit. - Stephen Juan ___ Zope-DB mailing list Zope-DB@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-db
Re: [Zope] apache rewrite rules redux
Hi David,
I'm suffering from a coffee underflow error, so am not 100% (yet!), but...
David Bear wrote:
RewriteRule ^/z2$ http://127.0.0.1:9080/VirtualHostBase/\
https/%SERVER_NAME}:80/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_z2/ [L,P]
RewriteRule ^/z2/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:9080/VirtualHostBase/\
https/%{SERVER_NAME}:80/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_z2/$1 [L,P]
RewriteRule ^/z2$ http://127.0.0.1:9080/VirtualHostBase/\
http/%SERVER_NAME}:80/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_z2/ [L,P]
RewriteRule ^/z2/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:9080/VirtualHostBase/\
http/%{SERVER_NAME}:80/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_z2/$1 [L,P]
The rules listed above only work to serve content from
http://servername/z2 .. They refuse to work for https://servername/z2
(that generates a not found error)
Any other advice on make both urls work?
Yes! Your rewrite rules are all rewriting to port 80, but for SSL you
need port 443, so you should have something like: -
RewriteRule ^/z2$ http://127.0.0.1:9080/VirtualHostBase/\
https/%SERVER_NAME}:443/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_z2/ [L,P]
^^^
...for the SSL versions.
HTH!
--
Regards,
PhilK
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Re: [Zope] Atomic ZSQL on Zope 2.7.5
Hi Andreas, Andreas Jung wrote: For some reason I thought ZSQL method calls were atomic, but they appear otherwise. What do you mean by atomic? ZSQL are handled by the database adaper which is usually tied to the transaction manager of the ZODB. I'm too tired to find the words, so cut and pasted from answers.com: - Indivisible. An atomic operation, or atomicity, implies an operation that must be performed entirely or not at all. For example, if machine failure prevents a transaction to be processed to completion, the system will be rolled back to the start of the transaction. Like Michael, I had understood that ZSQL database transactions were tied into Zope transactions, and would fail or succeed as a whole. Like him, I have found that - at least with this combination of DA RDBMS - this is not so. I work around it, as I always do when a Microsoft product is involved. If I hit the same thing with PostgreSQL, I'll look into it deeper... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 “The creative impulse animates whatever instrument is placed at its disposal.” — Robert Fripp ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Atomic ZSQL on Zope 2.7.5
Hi Floyd, Floyd May wrote: Like Michael, I had understood that ZSQL database transactions were tied into Zope transactions, and would fail or succeed as a whole. Like him, I have found that - at least with this combination of DA RDBMS - this is not so. I work around it, as I always do when a Microsoft product is involved. If I hit the same thing with PostgreSQL, I'll look into it deeper... I was under the impression that ZSQL methods were very much intended to be atomic: http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/RelationalDatabases.stx#2-77 Yes, the docs seem pretty unambiguous. I know that it's been atomic to the point of frustration when working with Zope and MySQL. Perhaps the database adapter is at fault here? Surely there /is/ only one point to which it can be atomic? ;-) There are several layers to this - the eGenix DA, the eGenix ODBC stuff below that, MS's ODBC driver for SQL Server and SQL server itself. If I hit the issue with the eGenix DA and another (non-MS) database, or with another DA and another (non-MS) database entirely, I would spend time trying to diagnose it. Having wasted a big chunk of my life on troubleshooting this stuff I now have a rigid policy - if an MS product is involved I want to know how it /does/ work and develop against that, otherwise I want to know how it /should/ work and make sure it does. I'm not trying to denigrate MS (I earn a living on Windows, can live with the OS, can live without the applications), I'm just making an observation on not throwing precious time away on things that are unfathomable. -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 “The creative impulse animates whatever instrument is placed at its disposal.” — Robert Fripp ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Atomic ZSQL on Zope 2.7.5
Hi Michael, Maslak, Michael wrote: How can I detect failure and maintain atomicity? You may get more responses to this on the Zope-DB list - as well as other RDBMS + Zope users, the eGenix guys are active over there (or as active as you can be on such a quiet list). -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 “The creative impulse animates whatever instrument is placed at its disposal.” — Robert Fripp ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Nabble, again?
Hi Chris, Chris Withers wrote: Dunno what Nabble is You could always google for it... ;-) (Sorry - couldn't help myself!) -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Using folder name in macro
Hi John, John Poltorak wrote: How do I use a folder name in a macro? ie I want to change this metal:macro metal:use-macro=context/abc.pt/macros/page This is a path expression with a file (abc.pt) and path (context/, signifying the context of the call)... which is in the folder 'abc' ...so you must have /abc/abc.pt to metal:macro metal:use-macro=context/[folder_name].pt/macros/page In your example, you seem to have confused the file and folder - I suspect you want something more like: - metal:macro metal:use-macro=context/[folder_name]/abc.pt/macros/page ...meaning the macro page in the file abc.pt in the folder folder_name, with all the usual caveats about acquisition. I don't know where to look this sort of thing up. I generally start with the examples in the latest (?) Zope book (2.7) on Plope.org. The reference is appendix C: - http://www.plope.com/Books/2_7Edition/AppendixC.stx HTH! -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope-DB] Accessing ZSQL Method properties
Hi All, I'd like to throw a warning in my application when a record-set is truncated (e.g. if the ZSQL Method has a Maximum Rows to Retrieve value lower than the size of the record-set). In a Script(Python), what is the syntax to access this value? FWIW, I've been trying to work this out from the 2.7 Zope Book, but the section in the docs tails off with the plaintive comment XXX where is that??... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope-DB mailing list Zope-DB@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-db
Re: [Zope] Re: major problems placing authentication on an extranet site-security flaw?
Hi, J Cameron Cooper wrote: Also, as I recall, there was a private plone site howto on plone.org; dunno what happened to it. It's still there, still works - and is very likely what Michael wants. -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: major problems placing authentication on an extranet site-security flaw?
Hi Again, Re. Private Plone Site Howto Philip Kilner wrote: It's still there, still works - and is very likely what Michael wants. I'm an idiot - should have checked, knowing that there was a documentation sprint last weekend. It was at: - http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/creating-private-plone-site/howto_view ...but I get a login prompt at that URL now. Has this how to been pulled because flawed, or is it just missing? I've used it in numerous places, so I'd be interested to know either way! -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: major problems placing authentication on an extranet site-security flaw?
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: Yes I found that as well but picked it up from the Google cache. Strange that it is available there as it's password protected. Possibly it was public before? Yes, it was public before. Have you tried this, and does it solve your problems? JCC is spot on when he points to workflow as being the basis of security in Plone - it's also worth saying that the Zope system and the Plone system are pretty much at odds with one another. You are more likely to make mistakes at the Zope level than to do what you intend. (If you try the howto, don't overlook that last step - hitting the update security settings button. Managed to overlook this myself recently (despite it being the umpteenth time I've followed this howto), and spent hours thinking that something more exotic was going on!) Let us know how you get on... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: major problems placing authentication on an extranet site-security flaw?
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: I've implemented what's outlined in the make private site documentation and it works fine on Plone 2.1.1. No content is available apart from the site-map page (doesn't list content) and the contact form but I can figure that out separately. Since neither of those counts as content as such, I think that that is legitimate and as you say, you can work around those if it matters to you (In cases where I've wanted to work around such things, I've simply called a script that redirects with an error message if the the appropriate conditions aren't met. Yes I think I like the HTML login page way to authenticate. It feels more usable. And I don't think I'll use an Apache login box at all. Most users will find it hard remembering one password and with cookie authentication over SSL you can go straight into the site. Brilliant. Agreed. Apache does a great job of managing the SSL, securing the data over public wires, but that's a 100% generic task whereas the authentication is tightly bound to your application. It's worth bearing in mind that those credentials are passed over the wire with every page, so you need your sessions to /stay/ in SSL mode once authenticated. I'm revisting some of the points made in this thread though about security. It does seem that Zope and Plone as you say, are at odds on this. Because Zope is an application server, it has to expose it's mechanism - Plone has an easier job because it has a specific task to do (e.g. manage content), and so can take an approach which is much simpler to fly. In Plone, always do things the Plone way - working at the Zope level may potentially subvert Plone's mechanisms for achieving things. -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: major problems placing authentication on an extranet site-security flaw?
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: Also I feel that Plone has usabillity which sits above it's prettyness. It is a well designed interface graphically but also has very strong non graphical usability elements. You are correct - but you are not comparing like with like, as Plone is an /application/ and Zope is an /application server/. An analogous comparison might be between a car's dashboard and it's engine compartment - you would expect the dashboard to be designed for a human user above all, but the engine compartment - however logically laid out - is primarily functional and is always going to appear alien to the person who is more comfortable driving than using a spanner. Ultimately, Zope's ZMI user interface is designed for techies who want a minimal user interface which allows them to see the moving parts, not the kind of end-user oriented GUI that Plone sports. You've been given a bit of a hard time in this thread, and I think that some good points have been made, but I've seen your energetic but somewhat misdirected posting as more a symptom of youth and over-confidence than any great sin - you seem to be coping with the feedback, so you'll learn. However, I'd like to make the point that the counter-productive and gratuitous insults for which Chris is rightly famous are another thing entirely. He's a clever bloke and helpful, but he seems to enjoy being rude - which is a shame. FWIW, I think the best advice you've been given, albeit in the midst of quite a strong mail were Floyd's - the security framework in Zope and Plone was built in the way that it is FOR A REASON - both in terms of etiquette and in terms of what should be reasonable to assume, it is usually best to assume that the core of Zope and Plone /work/, and that if some part of them appears not to then it is more likely the nut behind the steering wheel that is responsible, as it were. ;-) Have a good weekend... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope-DB] Suggestions If Any Please ! ! ! ! !
Hi Rajesh, Rajesh wrote: I'm Having problem in Zsql Method ,which return recordset dictionary,containing key--.value pairs, this recordset returns only 1000 records ,Even if my Sql query satisfies more than 1000 records , Looking forward for suggestions/alternatives Look at the Advanced tab of your ZSQL method - there is a property there called Maximum rows to retrieve which is limiting your result set size. The default is 1,000 - you need to identify an appropriate value. Please don't send HTML mail with graphics to the list - plain text only, please. -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope-DB mailing list Zope-DB@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-db
Re: [Zope] ODBC DA on zope2.6.x
Hi Giuseppe, Giuseppe Bonelli wrote: What people use as an ODBC database adaptor on Zope 2.7 and above? Is the eGenix.com mxODBC Zope DA commercial product the only serious alternative? I use the eGenix product (against MS SQL Server, primarily), and am very happy with it. It is not expensive, and if you value your time at all you may conclude - as I did - that it is less expensive to purchase the eGenix product than it would be to thoroughly test a free or open source alternative... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] NTUserFolder still useful?
Hi Sean, Sean Dunn wrote: I’m running Zope on WindowsXP with plans to run it on server 2003. Instead of creating user accounts I’d like to leverage NT authentication.. And NTUserFolder looks like it might be what I want, except that it looks like a dead product. Besides a note that it works on Win2k under certain constraints, I’m not sure if I should try using it. Have people had success installing this on WinXP/S2003? Can't speak for XP/S2K3, but we use it in production under S2K in an S2K3 environment, and I can vouch for it's usefulness. When we set our system up, there were some issues with AD LDAP support that I couldn't overcome - NTUserFolder provides authentication to the Intranet using Windows credentials, which was all we needed. There was some issue with crypto on the 2K3 Server, but this was just a case of some silly default settings (same sort of stuff that would cause Same /et al/ issues). Let me know if you need more details... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Vservers and ZOPE
Hi Benmania, Benmania Guin wrote: I have some experience with Zope on my desktop pc with an WIN XP operating system. Now I want to order my own virtual server but I am unsure about the features I will need and I do not know how to install ZOPE on such a system at all. Can you give me any advice what features I will certainly need, e.g. SSH(?), Root access(?)? Can you tell me where I can find more infos about this issue (installing ZOPE on different VServers with different OSs)? I've just ordered the Zope Virtual Server from Zettai, which seemed to mysteriously morph from a Zope instance to a virtual server part way through the sign up process - which I am very happy about. I wouldn't have chosen a virtual server initially, because all my experience is Win32 and I don't have time to learn for this project. However, it feels like the best of both worlds - I didn't have to set Zope up at all, it was all in place for me (Zope 2.8.1, Plone 2.1 + the classic products I'd have expected to install), and I get SSH and Root access more or less as a bonus. The only thing I have had to get my head around is the file system - but that hasn't been hard at all. You might consider a Zettai account, or you might want to see how they do it, 'cos they seem to have got it right from my PoV. Put it this way - I bought a second identical account less than a week later for a personal project. I hope my inquiries were not too trivial to be answered. Not at all - this is important! -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: ZDatabaseTool - does this still exist?
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: I've already made it clear in this thread exactly what I want to do! It doesn't to be a relational db to be able to easily add fields.The database browser tools in the ZMI are ok but basic. I'm as puzzled as other readers, but now you have said add fields, I'm even more puzzled! What do you want to add fields to? Do you mean to add properties to an object? What sort of object? If so, arguably the whole ZMI is your database tool, and the database tools elements are just some maintenance utilities... N.B. Am not trying to needle you - am trying to get some traction on your problem! :-) -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: ZDatabaseTool - does this still exist?
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: Whether you call them objects or fields it's still clear what I want to do and there's no easy way to do it. Surprised someone hasn't developed a product tn do this. I'm looking at CMFMember and perhaps it will fit the bill. There are a bunch of things to say here - first of all, it may be clear to /you/, but it's not clear to /us/! You do need to respect the fact that others may use different terms (or consider different things implicit), to communicate usefully. I've become frustrated myself whilst getting to grips (to the extent that I have!) with these tools, but it doesn't help...what helps is chipping away at it with a positive attitude until you arrive at some common ground. Now you mention CMFMember, it seems that you want to add fields (attributes?) to the Member record (object?). If you think of the ZODB as a database, and Zope as an application server, you are now getting into the specifics of an /application/ (CMF/Plone), and in that context your needs are perhaps more complex than you think: You need to store your data, yes, but you also need to integrate the capture and updating of that data into an existing application. So you are not really asking for a database management tool but a product which does that and more besides - which goes to show that the terminology /is/ important! -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: localhost:8080 not found on windows
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: Thanks for the help here. I'm calling in a support engineer to try and get it up and running. Firewall, router issues involved. Strange though that localhost doesn't work. Because that wouldn't go through the firewall/router. I despise ISA Server with a passion - have just spent a couple of hours hunting down a silly mistake in one of my rules in the 2K3 version which would have stuck out like a sore thumb in an Apache .conf file. I wouldn't make any assumptions about what it might block, up to and including localhost - it bites me time after time, and all I ever have to do is add web publishing rules, which that /should/ be simple enough. Problem is, it's all hidden in tabbed dialogues where you can't see the whole rule at once...spit I've also noticed that something shuts down pythonservice.exe program which is strange. Now that /is/ a new one on me - but would certainly explain your problem... Good luck! -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: localhost:8080 not found on windows
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: I've even tried using the machine's local IP but that doesn't work in the same way that localhost doesn't. I've installed Apache now as well so as to route requests through that to Zope. I'm going to be using the same IP address that the webmail exchange service uses. It uses mail.sbcscot.com http://mail.sbcscot.com so I guess if I have http://plone.sbcscot.com then I could tell Apache to route that to Zope? How would I tell IIS or ISA not to listen to that domain? Meanwhile I noticed on installing Apache that it failed to bind to port 80! Well, you /can't/ tell IIS not to listen on that domain - it listens at a port on an IP. The host header translation for virtual hosting can only happen if it can field the request in the first place (e.g. if there are no clashes at that port/IP). If you have a single interface, you are stuck using non-standard ports to avoid clashes. Apache will not bind to port 80 either because you have http://mail.sbcscot.com bound to the same port IP, or because of the socket pooling nonsense if you have a separate IP. I would not touch ISA with a barge-pole if I had a choice - but assuming you are on SBS and are/could be behind a separate firewall, I would: - - Leave Zope/Plone on 8080 - Change the port for webmail (and any other IIS stuff) to a different high port (e.g. 9080?), so it is no longer clashing with Apache. - Disable socket pooling. spit! - Run Apache on port 80 - Use virtual hosts with rewrite rules in the Apache .conf to pass requests to your Zope and Webmail sites. You could probably do something similar with ISA server (I do, but not on the same box as IIS and Zope/Plone), but I'd rather not even think about that... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] localhost:8080 not found on windows
Hi Michael, Apols for delay in replying - been on the hoof. michael nt milne wrote: Thanks for the advice. Yes I've looked at everything mentioned here. Localhost is in the hosts file. Zope has started as a service. I've changed the hosts file to include localhost:8080/manage etc. Yes this is a set-up on Windows Small Business Server and it also has an Exchange webmail service running as well. The web server is IIS 6.0. Enterting http://domain or IP/exchange gives the login for the exchange service, however localhost:8080 or 127.0.0.1 etc gives page not found. Do I need to set-up a website under IIS or a virtual directory? Absolutely not - if IIS and Zope are on different ports, they are two entirely separate beasts. Does your SBS install include ISA server? - If so, you will probably need to tweak it. - If not, I would try looking at logfiles and/or changing Zope's port. Honestly, this is usually v. easy - either the service is having problems or there is something else on that port (it's often used by web application servers, e.g. Tomcat, as a default). HTH - Let us know where you're at. -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] Re: localhost:8080 not found on windows
Hi Michael, Michael nt milne wrote: I read though that you have to do a re-write in IIS or install an ISAPI re-write extension so that IIS speaks to zope. There's also the 404 asp script in Andy Mckay's book. This only applies if you are using the /same/ ports on IIS as Zope. Using 8080 should keep it separate. Apparently IIS hogs all the ports and has to be forced not to. Not quite - it hogs it's ports (e.g. 21, 80, 443) on all IPs (socket pooling) unless sense is kicked into it. See: - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q238131/ Not sure about ISA server. Since it is a firewall and would know about IIS but not Zope, you do need to know if it's in play... Can I suggest you try this on a plain Windows workstation, so you can see how it normally works? -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] Re: localhost:8080 not found on windows
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: Ok thanks. Will check on the ISA side. I've it up and running on a laptop fine. Will let you know progress. Would you say it should be fine just running the app from the zope server on 8080 once it is running,rather than configuring to go through IIS?What's your experience? Glad you've had it running on a laptop - I was concerned you might lose faith! ;-) If the app is Internet facing, or has non-trivial traffic, I'd put Zope behind Apache. I have multiple sites on single Zope instances on several Windows servers, and it works really well. In my case, Apache serves pages on port 80 but on a separate IP address from IIS. One old server is NT4 (!) which worked fine, another is Win2k Server, and I needed to knock socket pooling on the head for that one. If I were doing it again, I'd run /both/ Zope and IIS on non-standard ports, and put both behind Apache. I may be a bit jaundiced, but I don't consider IIS is well enough house-trained to be let loose on port 80... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
[Zope] Re: localhost:8080 not found on windows
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: Ok, thanks. Yes, Apache would be much better to route traffic through. And also it looks like a complete pain to try and route traffic through IIS. Is Apache for windows good? I only have experience of it on UNIX Works fine - once it's up and running and you are looking at the .conf file, you will probably barely notice the difference. Since I am not expecting very high traffic for my site at first I am going to use the Zope server at first. My head is hurting too much just now! Understood! By the way do you have any experience of altering the zope database or adding fields to the registration process on Plone etc? Seems a wee bit tricky and a client wants extra fields etc. That's one for the Plone list - but there is now a release candidate out for Plone 2.1, and I understand such things are simpler in that version. There may be an existing CMF/Plone product that does what you want for that matter. -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Anyone using isapirewrite or freshlogic re-write for IIS and Zope?
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: Has anyone used either of the ISAPI re-write tools for IIS and Zope from HeliconTech at http://www.isapirewrite.com or at Freshlogic http://freshlogic.net ? I'm attempting to set up a largescale instance on a windows small business server. The latter is written more for Plone and Zope in mind. Both cost around £30-35. No experience of either - but you may also want to consider: - http://www.enfoldsystems.com/Products/EEP ...of which I also have no experience g, but which is closer to Plone, as it were... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] RE: Blobs in Interbase
Hi Ashley, Ashley Lloyd wrote: The LDAP error, as it turns out, was from zkinterbasdb or something like that - something I probably picked up thinking it was kinterbase. Aha - thought it was unlikely to be from the DA! Forgive my ignorance, but what was your procedure for installing kinterbase? I've tried just installing kinterbasDA, which required kinterbasdb. So I've tried installing kinterbasdb (from an executable, rather than the more familiar simple compressed file), but I keep getting an ImportError: DLL load failed when looking at the product in Control_Panel/Products. The error refers to a line import _kinterbasdb as _k. I've assumed that its referring to import _kinterbasdb.pyd, rather than a dll, as thats all that I can find. I've tried copying it into several places, but I'm assuming that its compiled by the exe at install time, and is specific to the folder its placed in. Or I could be completely wrong! You want a .pyd, not a .dll - that bit's fine. I may have started from a different point from you - I have a Plone install with multiple Zope and Plone sites in it, and Plone does a couple of things differently. In a Plone install on Windows, the Plone's Python is set as the system's Python. This means that when you run the binary installer for kinterbasdb it installs in the right copy of Python. I wonder if you have Python installed elsewhere, and the binary installer is finding the wrong one? The other thing is the mxExtensions - do you have these installed? Any hints as to your procedure would be appreciated, as this is getting frustrating (probably meaning I'm missing stupid things). I didn't do anything beyond what the docs for the three packages (mx Extensions, Python db i/f, Zope DA) stated - but there is always the joy of working out what those instructions /really/ mean, as in now I've done it, I understand it! I do remember some frustration, but I think it was just the system Python thing. If the above doesn't help, the traceback from your error should be our starting point - stick with it, because since installing it I haven't even needed to think about this DA except when I've upgraded it, it just works (for me - YMMV and all that)! -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] localhost:8080 not found on windows
Hi Michael, michael nt milne wrote: I have installed Zope and Plone on a windows business server. On trying to view http://localhost:8080/manage I am getting a 404 not found etc. Is that under IE? It's error messages can be misleading... The server is already running a webmail service, however nothing comes up for locahost or http://127.0.0.1. Do you have localhost in your hosts file?? Have you tried http://127.0.0.1:8080/manage ? Have you checked that the service is running? I've also tried using the IP address of the machine to access the interface with the same result. The IP address is available in web DNS. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the zope/plone browser interface running at all? It generally doesn't take any work at all - I'd suspect either that the service is not running or that something else is trying to hog that port before getting into more exotic issues. Check the service status (try restarting it if it seems to be running), and event log... You say windows business server - could this mean SBS? If so, has ISA server got it's sticky mitts in the situation? -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: Zope Foundation Update
Hi Godefroid, Godefroid Chapelle wrote: It's definitely better to speak about it in the open air, where we all will be able to think about it together. Amen. I wasn't aware of this until ten minutes ago, and now it seems a whole bunch of stuff has gone on, up to and including people getting shirty with each other, which I would have liked to have known about earlier. I'm an independent developer and I'm pretty quiet in the community, but I've pretty much bet my livelihood on Zope - this stuff /matters/ to me! What makes me unhappy about this is people making sweeping and inaccurate statements which also imply bad faith. The idea that an organisation that only registered a trademark in one territory describes the registration of the same mark in a /different/ territory as a violation is very irksome because it ignores the nature of trademark law (in which context ZC not registering it in Europe is negligence, plain and simple, if they want to pursue it), but infinitely more irksome is the implication that this was somehow done in bad faith, when what little I know about it indicates the exact opposite. This has the potential to make the Zope community look like muppets, and not in a good Swedish chef kind of way... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Re: Zope Foundation Update
Hi Chris, Chris Withers wrote: This has the potential to make the Zope community look like muppets, and not in a good Swedish chef kind of way... I'm not sure muppetism applies to the Zope community, it appears to be Zope Corporation who are coming out of this looking less than clever. Agreed/understood - but ZC are part of the community, too - the BDFL part, I guess. I was trying to be as inclusive as possible, since it takes two to get into these messes... -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Newbie Questions - many-many relationships? Zope 2 or 3?
Hi Jim, Jim Vine wrote: I’d greatly appreciate any guidance that can be provided on these subjects. I know a lot has been said since your original query, but re-reading it I was surprised that no one had asked a fundamental question: - If the data is structured in nature and fits the relational model well (e.g. is well defined), why not use an RDBMS for the data, and Zope/Plone for the UI? I do full-time development of web-based RDBMS applications in Zope and Plone (MS SQL and Firebird), and I have the following observations: - - By putting database-related complexity in the database, where it belongs IMHO, you may find (as I have) that the complexity of what you need to accomplish in Zope is reduced to the point where the ZMI approach is entirely appropriate. - You will find yourself working very hard to implement a relational database in the ZODB, compared to interfacing to an RDBMS. If you need one, I'd use one - instead of writing one! ;-) YMMV and all that - I /am/ an RDBMS zealot (see Fabian Pascal's writing for the mindset!), and I am /not/ a Python wizard (although my Python-Fu grows stronger by the day due to immersion in Zope...), so my choice of approach was strongly influenced by my starting point. -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] Transferring Zope Settings
Hi Joel, jlegris wrote: Clearly, transferring the Data.fs from the test server to the production server is insufficient given the user data mismatch. Therefore, it would seem that my only option, given the circumstances would be to manually replicate the configuration in the production server. However, my better judgment leads me to think that this isn't sensible. Is there no alternative? If you have settings and user data (not sure exactly what that means in terms of which objects are which) in the ZODB, and you need to update some and keep some, the way I would go about it is as follows: - - Identify in your production data.fs what user data needs preserving - Export these to disk as .zexp files. - Drop in the new data.fs - Test - Import the user data from the .zexp files on disk Clearly, in your case treating the data.fs as a single monolithic entity will not work for you - you need a way of splitting up the two types of data that need to be treated in two different ways. I do the above fairly frequently - I have a Plone site that seems to be nomadic, and has passed through a number of data.fs instances in it's life. The only gotcha I've encountered is where the products were out of sync between instances. (Note that this is pretty much what Tino has already said - I'm just expanding on it a bit to try and get some traction.) Is there any reason why the above would not work for you? I have a nagging feeling I'm missing something here...which I think flows form your use of the term settings - would you care to expand on what objects you are thinking of? -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public key: http://www.xfr.co.uk Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 You'll find that one part's sweet and one part's tart: say where the sweetness and the sourness start. - Tony Harrison ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope-DB] ZODBCDA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Carlos, Carlos A. Micucci wrote: I have a problem with ZODBCDA. When query a DB which instances have a null values, this values return as cero values (0) not nulls values, and this is a problem for me, because I need differentiate them. In my opinion, it's a serious error. There is somebody who know the solution? ZODBCDA is obsolete and unmaintained - unless you are using a /really/ old version of Zope, you are likely to encounter much more serious problems than this. There is another free ODBC adapter (for Windows only) at: - http://www.zope.org/Members/timmorgan/products/ZODBCDA/document_view There is also an ADO adapter: - http://sourceforge.net/projects/zadoda/ YMMV - I have not tried these, and both are early versions. Finally there is the commercial eGenix product at: - http://www.zope.org/Members/lemburg/mxODBC_Zope_DA I /have/ worked with this one - on fact I earn my living with it, in effect. Recommended. HTH! - -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything --- William of Ockham (1285-1349) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCjhgWuk+q3Pfz3LYRAmtRAJ996Zg8WQfAteyqOkvLXBlVnc79DQCePQc1 AOawgCkXSCz9Y58jf/4F/M8= =lNzr -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Zope-DB mailing list Zope-DB@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-db
Re: [Zope] Re: Does anyone care whether we deprecate ZClasses?
Hi Chris, Chris Withers wrote: (There are no plans to deprecate DTML. It is even supported in Zope 3.) That is the best news I have heard all day (although, it is early). I will be selling black flags for the mourning of a missed opportunity... With or without a circled A? ;-) -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 it's very hard to talk quantum using a language originally designed to tell other monkeys where the ripe fruit is - Lu-Tze ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
Re: [Zope] RE: [Zope-dev] Prohibiting Spams on the List
Hi Tim, Tim Peters wrote: I'd be happy to restrict posting to members, *if* people don't object to the idea. I wouldn't ever even /expect/ to be able to submit from a non-member address... I spend an increasingly resented part of each day doing list-admin triage (for zodb-dev and about 6 other mailing lists). (Snap!) reject is the no-manual-intervention default action, but it would place a new burden on members posting from non-member accounts (their posts would be rejected, at least until they asked the list admin to add their other posting accounts to Mailman's list of non-members to accept -- and they would need to do that on a per-list basis). ...and I wouldn't expect the list admin to take special measures for me either - I'd expect to have to subscribe from two addresses and deal with the dupes if I wanted to send from two addresses. Does Mailman have a nomail facility that subscribers could set /themselves/ on secondary accounts? In gentler times, your concern would be wonderful - in the current climate, you'll drown if you can't automate it. Save yourself, while you can! ;-) -- Regards, PhilK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Voicemail Facsimile: 07092 070518 The lyf so short, the craft so long to learne - Chaucer ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
