[Zope] Zope and FastCGI installation

[John VanDyk]

I'm trying to enter the world of Zope.

I've got FreeBSD 4.3 running and I've installed the Apache port with 
mod_fastcgi. The reason I'd like to use Apache is that I'll have some 
large files (QuickTime movies) that I don't want to put into Zope. It 
sounded to me from reading doc/WEBSERVER.txt that fastcgi was the 
best way to go, as it permits Zope to run multithreaded and allows 
Apache to handle static files. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this.

I've installed Zope 2.3.2 from source and it seems to have come up 
OK. I've done the modifications listed in WEBSERVER.txt and I get the 
message

2001-05-01T18:55:57 INFO(0) ZServer FastCGI Server (V1.0) started at 
Tue May  1 13:55:57 2001
         IP          :
         Port        : None
         Socket path : /usr/local/www/Zope/fastcgisocket/fastcgi.soc

when Zope starts so it seems to be ready. But when I point my browser 
at my.server.org/zope Apache tells me that "The server encountered an 
internal error or misconfiguration" and Apache's error log elaborates:

[Tue May  1 14:17:01 2001] [error] [client 129.186.111.11] FastCGI: 
invalid (dynamic) server "/usr/local/www/data/zope": script not found 
or unable to stat()

I think I've pretty much followed the instructions to the letter, but 
I must have missed something.

John