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206| Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:24:00 GMT| kbperry| Comments (4)
Call me crazy and stupid, but how do you start zope? I downloaded the
thing, installed it, and then nothing. I can find a stupid README.txt
that is useful.

Can someone help?...Please!

Thx.

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kbperry wrote:
> Call me crazy and stupid, but how do you start zope? I downloaded the
> thing, installed it, and then nothing. I can find a stupid README.txt
> that is useful.
> Can someone help?...Please!

Install Python 2.4

Install Zope 3 in that python by using setup.py

Make a Zope instance with Python24\Scripts\mkzopeinstance.bat

Start that instance by running

<INSTANCE_HOME>/bin/runzope.bat

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hilsen/regards Max M, Denmark

http://www.mxm.dk/
IT's Mad Science

maxm | Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:26:00 GMT |

Cool thx Matt. I did finally figure it out, but barely. Why would you
want to download and install Zope without creating an instance? It
seems kind of dumb to me.

kbperry | Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:27:00 GMT |

kbperry wrote:
> Cool thx Matt. I did finally figure it out, but barely. Why would you
> want to download and install Zope without creating an instance? It
> seems kind of dumb to me.

This is a quite normal separation. I think you will find the same
thing among both database systems and various web tool kits. Some
database systems do create an instance on installation, but that's
because those database systems need one main systems database per
install to adminster the other databases. Whether it's Oracle, Zope
or Django, you can have many instances running in one installation.

I installed Trac yesterday. It worked just the same way.

In settings with more than just a few developers, it's quite normal
that system admins install software products such as Zope, while
software developers create Zope instances. Why on earth would you
force the sysadmin to make a Zope instance? He doesn't need one!
The developer probably doesn't have root access, and it isn't his
job to install third party s/w.

magnuslycka | Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:28:00 GMT |

Many good points! Thx Matt.

kbperry | Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:29:00 GMT |

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