[Zope3-Users] more confusion... newbie help needed

[Martin Blais]

hello again

perhaps it's the overload of concepts, i cannot seem to get a clear
image in my mind how i'm going to build a zope app from reading the
online docs.  i need answers to the dumb questions, and all i can find
is answers to the smart questions.

for example, the tutorial shows how to build the fancy message board,
but i still can't quite figure out the way to build a simple set of
html pages with a common template.  i'm fiddling around feeling like
an idiot.  methinks there is need for a dumb intro to zope.

also, is anyone using emacs/tramp to edit files on the server thru the
ftp interface?   i'm using the release, and i get a "421 service not
available" error when i try to save the files, the same occurs when i
store by hand, zope spits this out:

127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:21:04 -0400] "PASS /"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:37 -0400] "PASS /"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:39 -0400] "CWD /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:40 -0400] "CWD /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:40 -0400] "CWD /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:41 -0400] "LIST /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:42 -0400] "SIZE /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:42 -0400] "MDTM /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:42 -0400] "RETR /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:44 -0400] "SIZE /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:44 -0400] "MDTM /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:56 -0400] "SIZE /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:56 -0400] "MDTM /rideboard"
127.0.0.1 - blais [13/Dec/2004:16:22:59 -0400] "STOR /rideboard"
error: uncaptured python exception, closing channel
<zope.server.ftp.server.FTPServerChannel connected 127.0.0.1:33300 at
0xb754cc8c> (exceptions.AttributeError:'unicode' object has no
attribute 'decode'
[/home/httpd/Zope3/src/zope/server/ftp/server.py|finishSTOR|499]
[/home/httpd/Zope3/src/zope/server/ftp/publisher.py|writefile|88]
[/home/httpd/Zope3/src/zope/server/ftp/publisher.py|_execute|114]
[/home/httpd/Zope3/src/zope/publisher/publish.py|publish|138]
[/home/httpd/Zope3/src/zope/app/publication/ftp.py|callObject|36]
[/home/httpd/Zope3/src/zope/publisher/publish.py|mapply|113]
[/home/httpd/Zope3/src/zope/publisher/publish.py|debug_call|119]
[/home/httpd/Zope3/src/zope/app/ftp/__init__.py|writefile|190]
[/home/httpd/Zope3/src/zope/app/ftp/__init__.py|_overwrite|186]
[/home/httpd/Zope3/src/zope/app/zptpage/zptpage.py|write|138])