[Zope-dev] Product Testing

[Chris McDonough]

For development, it's better to run Zope under a DOS box by using
"runzope.bat" than it is to continually stop and start the Zope NT
service.  Zope as an NT service has particularly poor error reporting
for startup problems ( see http://zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1020 ). 

If you use "runzope.bat" instead of the service starter, you can visit
the "error_log" object in the ZMI, check "copy exceptions to event log",
save that, put the following in your zope.conf:

<eventlog>
  level all
  <logfile>
    path $INSTANCE/log/event.log
    level info
  </logfile>
  <logfile>
    path STDOUT
    level info
  </logfile>
</eventlog>

Then restart Zope.

This will cause Zope's event log to log to not only a logfile but to the
console under which you start Zope, making it easy to spot startup
errors when you use "runzope.bat".

- C

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 14:03, Marshall Powers wrote:
> I'm somewhat new to zope in general, and I've been having some trouble 
> developing products. Im running 2.7 on WinXP as a windows service. My 
> biggest problem is with debugging my products. Right now, the only 
> feedback I get is whether or not the zope service starts successfully. 
> It would really help if I could get some error message as to what part 
> of my product zope choked on. Any Ideas?
> 
> 
> Thank You,
> Marshall
> 
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