[Zope] Re: Installing Zope on Ubuntu Breezy

[Tres Seaver]

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Weiers Coetser wrote:
> 
>> You can create an 'access' file in the instance home (looks like
>> '/var/lib/zope2.8/plone-site' in your case), with an "emergency user" ID
>> and password;  you can even leave the password in plain text while
>> testing, e.g.:
>>
>>  $ cat /var/lib/zope2.8/plone-site/access
>>  emergency:123
>>
>> You should then be able to log in as that user after restarting Zope;
>> that user has limited powers, mostly involving creating "normal" users
>> and setting up user folders.
>>
>>  
>>
> It's just not working. I created the access file, but I am still asked
> for a password that I cannot seem to provide. I've now uninstalled all
> of Plone and All of Zope, and used Synaptic to try to install only Zope.
> I installed the Zope Sandbox, but I still cannot get it launched. Now I
> get "The connection was refused when attempting to contact local host
> 8081. I tried to create an instance using ./bin/runzope command, but
> every time I got error messages (I could not locate a ./bin/runzope
> anywhere except in the /var/lib/zope2.9/instances/sandbox directory.
> 
> Am I getting the impression that Ubuntu is doing a very non-standard
> install of Zope?
> 
> I'm sorry that I'm complaining. I've spent more than 5 hours trying to
> solve this now. I am very new to linux and I am learning a lot (even in
> the process of solving this problem).  The environment is quite
> different to Windows, where I downloaded Plone and had it working in a
> few minutes. I just don't want to keep dual-booting if I can do it right
> here in my native filesystem.

I don't normally install the packaged versions.  Here is what I just did:

 $ sudo apt-get update
 $ sudo apt-get install zope2.8
 $ sudo apt-get install plone2.1

This fails:  "Couldn't find package plone2.1"

 $ sudo apt-get install plone-site

which wants a lot of zope2.7 packages installed.  I don't know how you
were able to install plone2.1 via synaptic.

Here is something else to try:

 $ sudo /var/lib/zope2.8/plone-site/bin/zopectl
 zope> adduser admin 123
 zope> restart


You should then be able to log in as 'admin' with password '123'.


Tres.
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