[Zope-dev] Making objects publishable

[Adrian Graham]

Much thanks for all of the suggestions regarding simple object
publishing. Unfortunately I continue to have problems.

It was suggested that the easiest way to publish an object was using the
ZopeHTTPServer as follows:
> ZopeHTTPServer.py [-p <port>] [-t] [-h <host address>] <path to module>
> var=value,]

This makes sense to me, but for some reason the ZopeHTTPServer.py was
not given executable permission in my installation -- I don't know if
this is typical or not. If it is then perhaps am I not supposed to run
the ZopeHTTPServer.py directly? Anyway, after giving this file
executable permission, I tried publishing the Hello.py file, but
received the following error message:

(the current directory is: [zope root]/lib/python/)
bash-2.02# ../../bin/python ../../ZopeHTTPServer/ZopeHTTPServer.py -p
9673
../../Hello.py
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "../../ZopeHTTPServer/ZopeHTTPServer.py", line 500, in ?
    if __name__=="__main__": main()
  File "../../ZopeHTTPServer/ZopeHTTPServer.py", line 498, in main
    start(module_file,host,port,threading,env)
  File "../../ZopeHTTPServer/ZopeHTTPServer.py", line 436, in start
    set_published_module(module_file,BoboRequestHandler,env)
  File "../../ZopeHTTPServer/ZopeHTTPServer.py", line 429, in
set_published_module
    import cgi_module_publisher
ImportError: No module named cgi_module_publisher

This seems like some sort of configuration error to me, but I'm not
really sure what I'm doing wrong. It can't seem to find the
cgi_module_publisher module and neither can I. 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Adrian

Michel Pelletier wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adrian Graham [mailto:aag@stanford.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 10:31 PM
> > To: zope-dev@zope.org
> > Subject: [Zope-dev] Making objects publishable
> >
> >
> > I am in the process of trying to make a simple "Hello World" object
> > publishable. Currently I am using the tutorial entitled
> > "Approaching the
> > Zope Product API." In one section of the tutorial it appears to give
> > instructions regarding making an object publishable, and testing that
> > object with the debugger. However, it remains unclear to me how I
> > actually install this object in the Zope system, so that it
> > is available
> > on the Web. At this point I am not interested in making this object a
> > Product, but rather just a published object. Any instructions
> > regarding
> > this would be greatly appreciated (or pointers to documentation, if
> > there is something I've overlooked).
> >
> 
> Publishing just a straight object on the web does not involve Zope,
> however, it does involve two things 1) a webserver, and 2) ZPublisher,
> which is the Object Request Broker for Zope.
> 
> ZPublisher publishes modules over various network protocols.
> 
> If you think about it, Zope is just one (really) big python module.  To
> ZPublisher, there is no difference between your python module and
> Zope's.
> 
> So, the quick and dirty way to publish your module would be with the
> quick   and dirty webserver that comes with Zope, ZopeHTTPServer.  The
> synopsis of the command to do this is:
> 
> ZopeHTTPServer.py [-p <port>] [-t] [-h <host address>] <path to module>
> var=value,]
> 
> <path to module> is the path to the module you want to publish.  The URL
> then would be:
> 
> http://machine:port/Module/Object
> 
> -Michel
> 
> > Adrian Graham
> >
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