[Zope] Continuing Woe with Win98 (but Zope V1.10.3 works!)

[Thomas B. Passin]

The correct host file is called "hosts", not "lmhosts".  However, since the
Personal Web Server answers to localhost, it's probably not an issue.  You
can verify this by trying to ping localhost and see if you get a response.

A suggestion - get Zope to start up on some other port, say 9080, and see if
you can talk to it there (just in case something mysterious is stepping on
port 8080).  I have run PWS and Zope on the same machine in the past,
although I have also had do strange things that led me to unistall it.

Another thing to try is to get an ftp client and see if it can talk to Zope
on port 8021.

When you run Zope, you said that "everything looks normal" in the DOS
session.  Does that mean that Zope announces which ports it is using and
what its host name is?  If not, Zope isn't loading correctly.  It should
look something like this (line breaks in the email client will probably
garbage up this printout):

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------
2001-04-18T15:16:26 INFO(0) ZServer HTTP server started at Wed Apr 18
11:16:26 2001
        Hostname: LS1191926A.mitretek.org
        Port: 8080
------
2001-04-18T15:16:26 INFO(0) ZServer FTP server started at Wed Apr 18
11:16:26 2001
        Hostname: LS1191926A
        Port: 8021
------
2001-04-18T15:16:26 ERROR(200) ZServer Cannot write PID file.
------
2001-04-18T15:16:26 INFO(0) ZServer PCGI Server started at Wed Apr 18
11:16:26 2001
        Inet socket port: 8090

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Cheers,

Tom P


Paul Browning wrote -
>
> A while back I reported a problem with Zope under Win98. The
> symptoms are that everything looks OK in the MS-DOS command
> window but that when you try and browse to http://localhost:8080
> then nothing happens.
>
> A number of people made useful suggestions including making sure
> the was an entry in the Windoze LMHOSTS file but to no avail.
>
...
> Then, just for the hell of it, I installed Zope 1.10.3. IT WORKS
> (over port 9673)!
>