Ralf, On January 11, 2006 8:32 AM you wrote: > ... > As for the export/import of the "official" MathAction content... > Would it be possible to download the 200M database once, put it > into my local MathAction and later use rsync to synchronize with > the "official" database so that I run a mirror of the official > content (perhaps with minor local sandboxes). >
Yes! It is possible for you to do this. In fact I think it would be really great to have more such "mirrors". So far only Bob McElrath has done this, with my encouragement, as a means to backup the contents of the MathAction website. He did it initially about 6 months ago (September 2005) and I think he has done irregular updates of his local copy of the MathAction zope database a few times since then. You can use rsync to maintain a strict mirror of the MathAction site, but re-sync'ing local content with the "official" database is not quite so simple because of the need to merge potentially conflicting changes, but there is a specific Zope product called Zsyncer which is supposed to make this possible: http://www.zope.org/Members/slinkp/zsyncer_0-7-0 http://sourceforge.net/projects/zsyncer So far, Bob McElrath and I have only done some initial experiments with this. If/when you get your local copy of MathAction working, I would be glad to continue research this possibility. On January 11, 2006 11:28 AM you wrote: > > you can forget about my previous attachment. I found out that > the server runs as the user 'zope' and did not have read access > to the INSTANCE directory since that belonged to 'root'. Well, that's progress! :) > > I have updated the steps (see attachment). Thanks. I am a little worried about the complications regarding the location of the Zope products and the access permissions to the Zope instance that you created. I have always installed all Zope products into the 'instance' directory, which in your case would be /var/lib/zope2.7/instance/zope1/Products although older versions of Zope did do this differently. I recommend that you leave the access permissions the same as when the instance was created, but instead make sure that the directory, subdirectories and files are owned by the same user that runs Zope, e.g. check ls -l -d /var/lib/zope2.7/instance then change the owner and group to match the above chown -R zope:zope /var/lib/zope2.7/instance/* I have never used the Debian zope-zwiki package apt-get install zope-zwiki Apparently it installs Zwiki-0.37 but in an odd location. I note that Simon Michael (the Zwiki developer) says: http://zwiki.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] zope-zwiki_0.37.0 compatibility --Simon Michael, Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:36:36 -0800 reply Hi.. I don't recommend you use the zope-zwiki package in debian - as you can see from it's last modified date, and http://zwiki.org , it's way out of date. Download from zwiki.org instead. Do please bug the debian package maintainer about this. ------- ZWiki-0.37 is about 1 year old (the current version is 0.48. See http://zwiki.org/repos/ZWiki/releases But on the other hand, the last stable version of LatexWiki is 0.35 and it is known to work with at least the corresponding version number of Zwiki-0.35 http://mcelrath.org/Notes/LatexWiki Since Bob has stopped actively maintaining LatexWiki, it might be easiest (at least to get the first running a system) to work with these known versions: http://zwiki.org/repos/ZWiki/releases/ZWiki-0.35.0.tgz http://mcelrath.org/LatexWiki-0.35.tar.gz I suggest that you remove zope-zwiki /var/lib/zope2.7/instance/zope1/bin/zopectl stop apt-get remove zope-zwiki and then untar Zwiki-0.35 directly into the Products directory cd /var/lib/zope2.7/instance/zope1/Products wget http://zwiki.org/repos/ZWiki/releases/ZWiki-0.35.0.tgz tar xzvf ZWiki-0.35.0.tgz chown -R zope:zope * /var/lib/zope2.7/instance/zope1/bin/zopectl start Test that you can create a plainwiki in ZMI http://localhost:9673/manage Now install LatexWiki in the same place /var/lib/zope2.7/instance/zope1/bin/zopectl stop cd /var/lib/zope2.7/instance/zope1/Products wget http://mcelrath.org/LatexWiki-0.35.tar.gz tar xzvf LatexWiki-0.35.tar.gz mv latexwiki/* rm latexwiki chown -R zope:zope * /var/lib/zope2.7/instance/zope1/bin/zopectl start The mv and rm are necessary because the contents of the sub- directory ZWiki in the LatexWiki tarball is intended to be merged into the existing ZWiki directory. And the LatexWiki sub-directory is really the LatexWiki product itself. > Unfortunately, although I now see the latexwiki type on a > > Add a ZWiki web > > entering an id and title and clicking "create wiki" leads to > the error below. Have you any idea? With the new installation procedure above, I am quite sure this will work. > > Site Error > > An error was encountered while publishing this resource. > > RuntimeError > Sorry, a site error occurred. > > Traceback (innermost last): > > * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 175, in publish_module_standard > * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 132, in publish > * Module Zope.App.startup, line 204, in zpublisher_exception_hook > * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 101, in publish > * Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 88, in mapply > * Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 39, in call_object > * Module Products.ExternalMethod.ExternalMethod, line > 206, in __call__ > > RuntimeError > > Troubleshooting Suggestions > > * The URL may be incorrect. > * The parameters passed to this resource may be incorrect. > * A resource that this resource relies on may be > encountering an error. > > For more detailed information about the error, please refer > to error log. > Unfortunately this does not give any very useful information. The problem in ExternalMethod might have something to do with the none standard zope-zwiki installation and/or access permissions. To check the error log go to ZMI http://localhost:9673/manage and click on 'error_log'. Then click on the link under Exception. You can send me the contents of what you see when you click 'Display traceback as text'. It should be a little more complete than the traceback that you sent above. On the other hand, if re-installing as I suggest above works, this is probably unnecessary. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
