[Setup] Zope 2.8.7 won't start - *stumped*

[Russell Michell]

>Sounds like a misconfiguration of zope.conf. It can be anything in
>zope.conf, so check it thoroughly.
If that were the case then that's a bug, as it's straight out of the 2.8.7 
box!

No, I mentioned this to a collegaue. The first thing he suggested turned 
out to be the solution: port 8080 hadn't been enabled on the machine! I 
had it enabled and voila!

I found out the hard way that a good test is to see if you can see the 
Zope welcome screen using a browser on the machine Zope runs on (Lynx or 
x-forwarded GUI browser). If it works there and not elsewhere (as in my 
case) it's something unique to that machine and the first thing to check 
should be: "is the required port open?"

As my colleague said: If the process is running it's generaly a good 
indicator that the app is running too!

I hope someone else finds this useful and thanks to all the replies.

Cheers,
Russ


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"KE Liew" <ke.liew at gmail.com>
04/08/2006 08:32

 
        To:     "Russell Michell" <R.Michell at gns.cri.nz>
        cc:     setup at lists.plone.org
        Subject:        Re: [Setup] Zope 2.8.7 won't start - *stumped*


Sounds like a misconfiguration of zope.conf. It can be anything in
zope.conf, so check it thoroughly.


Regards,

Kwang

On 8/3/06, Russell Michell <R.Michell at gns.cri.nz> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm having problems with starting Zope itself:
>
> I've installed Zope 2.8.7 on RH Linux with Python 2.3.5 behind Apache
> 2.2.2, but just can't start it. I have installed and attempted to start
> Zope as a non-root user but inside of a dir that my user does has full
> privileges. It's also a dir that is an Apache Virtual Host.
>
> Following the guide in docs/INSTALL.txt
>
> #> ./configure --prefix=/path/to/zope/<DIR>
> --with-python=/usr/local/python/bin/python
> #> make
> #> make install
> #> /path/to/zope/bin/mkzopeinstance.py
> #> Directory: </PATH/TO/DESIRED/DIR/WITH/PRIVILEGES>
> #> username <USERNAME>
> #> password <PASSWORD>
> #> password again <PASSWORD>
> #> /path/to/zope/bin/<DIR>/bin/runzope
>
> It's at this last stage that the command prompt just hangs. I have left 
it
> for 5 minutes, tried to connect to vhost.mydomain.net:8080/manage via
> Firefox which then hangs and says 'The Connection Has Timed Out'.
>
> And if I start Zope using:
>
> #> /path/to/zope/bin/<DIR>/bin/zopectl start
>
> It *seems* to start. And running ps x | grep zope shows two zope
> processes, yet when I try to connect to vhost.mydomain.net:8080/manage
> again - Firefox hangs again and again then says 'The Connection Has 
Timed
> Out'.
>
> There is nothing in the apache event_log, or the Apache event_log for 
this
> sub-domain, nothing in Zope's Z2.log and no errors in Zope's event.log
> other than a single entry: WARNING ZODB.FileStorage Ignoring index for
> /path/to/zope/bin/<DIR>/var/Data.fs.
>
> I feel as though I've covered all the bases, and the only niggly feeling 
I
> have is that Zope needs to be installed as root but run as another user.
>
> Can anyone help me out here? I'm fully stuck!
>
> Many thanks for reading.
> Russ
>
>
>
>
> --
> Russell Michell - GeoNet Web Developer
>
> www.geonet.org.nz / www.gns.cri.nz
> r.michell at gns.cri.nz
> +64 (0)4 570 4761
> +64 (0)21 134 2459
>
> GNS Science
> 1 Fairway Drive
> Avalon
> Wellington
> New Zealand
>
> PO Box 30-368
> Lower Hutt
> New Zealand
>
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