[Zope-dev] INSTANCE_HOME and Win32

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:56:12 -0700


Thanks... seem's to work.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
To: "Andy McKay" <andym@activestate.com>
Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] INSTANCE_HOME and Win32


> Andy McKay wrote:
> >
> > In 4am's how to on using INSTANCE HOME he says "copy start and stop to
the
> > site directory". Whats start and stop?
>
> start.bat is the closest on Win32.
>
> Anyway, the short version is, create a folder 'current', copy the var and
> extensions folders of your favourite Zope setup into it, then copy any
products
> you want specific version of into current/Products.
>
> Then change start.bat so it looks a bit like:
> "E:\Zope\2.3.1\bin\python.exe" "E:\Zope\2.3.1\z2.py"
> INSTANCE_HOME="E:\Zope\current"
>
> ...that'll start up a Zope instance on port 8080, using the version of
Zope in
> E:\Zope\2.3.1 but the data.fs and other bits from E:\Zope\current\var
>
> good luck,
>
> Chris
>
>