[Zope] Totally new user help request

[Emory Baird]

Thanks Chris,

I had looked at that particular how-to but when I saw the first screenshot
and instructions I assumed it was only for someone upgrading, not doing a
fresh installation.

Following the steps worked for the most part, but I think I will have to
delete the zope directory and start from scratch.
Here are some of the issues I ran into:

- I had downloaded the .tgz file as root and when I switched to my user
account, it was in a directory that I wasn't allowed to access. Doh!

- After following the steps and typing ./install the superuser and password
scrolled past before I could write it down...

- Also during installation I got the following error message:
chmod 0711 /usr/local/zope/2-1-6/var
chmod: /usr/local/zope/2-1-6/var: Operation not permitted
I guess that I didn't do all the permissions steps properly so I'll try to
step through it again.

- when, as root, I typed ./start it seemed to work ok. I was able to see the
zope propaganda page and when I tried to enter the /manage directory it
prompted me for the password. Here again I think I typed something wrong
because the password I had assigned it didn't work, and I didn't have to
auto generated one to fall back on.

- at the end of the ./start sequence my command prompt did not return. Is
there something I can do to break out without stopping the process? I typed
[ctrl]C and got the prompt back but then I noticed that I would get a 404
error instead of the password prompt on /manage


Do you think I can salvage the installation and just try the PYTHONPATH
thing again to change the password? Or is this indicative of a deeper
problem?

Thanks for all your help.

Sincerely, Emory

-----Original Message-----
From: chrism@kurtz.digicool.com [mailto:chrism@kurtz.digicool.com]On
Behalf Of Chris McDonough
Sent: May 10, 2000 9:13 PM
To: emoryc@home.com
Cc: zope@zope.org
Subject: Re: [Zope] Totally new user help request


Emory,

Did you try to do the installation steps outlined in
http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/HowTos/zopeinstall/ZOPE-INSTALL-HOWTO
?

Emory Baird wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new not only to zope but Linux in general.
> I thought that by trying to install and run a content management system on
> Linux would be a good way to learn...
>
> I've managed to install zope, as root, and I've even installed ZAP but I
> can't seem to access the /manage URL.
> From ZAP I did ./startzap and it said that Apache was started
successfully.
>
> I can serve web pages with Apache successfully.
> I'm running Redhat 6.1 (Cartman)
> I have read as much documentation as I could find about installation etc.
> but I saw now mention of this particular problem.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, including advice to the effect that
> I've been overly ambitious :)
>
> Emory
>
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