[Zope] Installing ZServer

[Amos Latteier]

At 05:03 PM 5/5/99 -0400, Michel Pelletier wrote:

>> From: Tom Deprez [mailto:tom.deprez@village.uunet.be]
>> Still in my 'Zope hype' I installed it on my old DX2 66Mhz pc with
>> Windows95.
>> It works!!!. I've installed 1.11 and I like it even better 
>> then 1.10.2 ...
>> if you keep going like this.... what will 2.0 become?
>> Better graphics also! :-)
>> 
>> I must say that it is slow (slower then 1.10.2).... but I 
>> guess this is
>> normal seeing my computer configuration... :-)
>> 
>> Now, I wanted to try out the ZServer instead of the 
>> ZopeHTTPServer. So I
>> created the following batchfile :
>> 
>> set ZOPE_DEBUG_MODE=1
>> set PYTHONHOME='D:\WebSite\'
>> "D:\WebSite\bin\python" "D:\WebSite\ZServer\start.py"
>> 
>> However, I always get the following error :
>> 
>> log: adding channel <trigger at 920320>
>> Traceback (innermost last):
>>   File "D:\WebSite\ZServer\start.py", line 96, in ?
>>        from FTPServer import FTPServer
>>   File "D:\WebSite\ZServer\FTPServer.py", line 140, in ?
>>        from medusa.ftp server import ftp_channel, ftp_server, 
>> recv_channel
>>   File "D:\WebSite\ZServer\medusa\ftp_server.py", line 58, in ?
>>        HOSTNAME = socket.gethostbyaddr (IP_ADDRESS)[0]
>> socket.error: host not found
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>
>My guess is IP_ADDRESS in your start.py is not set right, however I
>believe it defaults to 127.0.0.1, does Win95 not have a 127.0.0.1
>(loopback) interface?  I would *not* be suprised.

I believe that the problem is that medusa's ftp server wants to look up the
hostname of the server machine. On Win95 machines which are not connected
to a network this fails. 

I think that this can be fixed by adding an entry in your Win95 hosts file
(\windows\hosts) like so:

127.0.0.1    localhost

If I recall correctly, I think that a hosts file doesn't exist by default
on Win95 machines. But there may be a sample hosts file in \windows\hosts.sam.

That said, I think that medusa's ftp server shouldn't have to make this
host name lookup. I am looking at implementing a fix/work around for this
and submitting it to Sam Rushing.

I'll also add this information to the ZServer INSTALL.txt file.

-Amos