[Zope] Please help newbie access her control manager/panel

[J. Stuff]

Dear Zope Group,

I am trying to use Zope at home and am wondering if someone might be
willing to help me get started. I have installed Zope 2.4.3 on my new
windowsXP machine, but I can't access the control manager. I've tried
the following URLs:
   http://localhost:8080/manage
   http://127.0.0.1:8080/manage
and was told by my browser (IE 6.0) the "page cannot be displayed."
Since those didn't work, I looked up my computer's hostname: I
typed "hostname" in a command prompt and found it is "joplop-alpha."
So then i tried:
   http://joplop-alpha:8080/manage
Still, "page cannot be displayed." I don't know how to change the
hostname or where it is even located as I am very unfamiliar with
windowsXP.

When I run start.bat (as the online zope book instructs) a dos prompt
opens containing the following information:
   C:\Program Files\WebSite>"C:\Program Files\WebSite\bin\python.exe"
   "C:\Program Files\WebSite\z2.py" -D
I have read mentions of the -D being a default debugging setting which
may need to be turned off. How do I turn it off? When I put any of those 
strings into the address area of my web browser, windows wants to know what 
program it should use to view it.

I also ran across an article which suggested one may need to create a
HOSTS file in the windows directory. I don't know how to do that, but I
follow directions very well.

During my latest installation of Zope I told it to run as a win32 service, 
if that matters at all. I uninstalled Zope and reinstalled it twice to try 
to get it to work - once choosing the manual option instead of the win32 
service option. I have a DSL connection and I don't have any firewall 
programs running (I did have Zone Alarm enabled, but turned it of so it 
wouldn't interfere). I've looked around on zope.org and egroups' message 
archives for hours and hours now, but have found very little relating to 
this problem.

I may sound like a person who has no business trying to use Zope, but I
use it at work everyday and love it. I can't wait to get it going at
home. Any help will be unbelievably appreciated.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jessica Robinson
junkystuph@hotmail.com


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