SetupRecipe

You can use the following recipe to set up a complete ZEO-based Zope site, including a handy-dandy startup script, izctl.py, which makes it easy to get into the python prompt connected to Zope:

  % mkdir zexplore
  % cd zexplore
  % mkdir dist
    # Stable binary Zope release:
  % wget http://dev.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.6.1/Zope-2.6.1-linux2-x86.tgz
  % tar -xzf Zope-2.6.1-linux2-x86.tgz 
  % ln -s Zope-2.6.1-linux2-x86 Zope
  % mv Zope-2.6.1-linux2-x86.tgz dist
    # Stable ZEO release:
  % wget http://dev.zope.org/Products/ZEO/ZEO-1.0.tgz
  % tar -xzf ZEO-1.0.tgz
  % mv ZEO-1.0.tgz dist
  % cp -r ZEO-1.0/ZEO Zope/lib/python
    # Cook the Zope software home:
  % cd Zope
  % install
    # ... zope installation gets cleaned ...
  % cd ..
  % mkdir instance1
  % cd instance1
  % mkdir var import Products Extensions
  % wget http://www.zope.org/Members/klm/ZopeDebugging/izctl.py
    # Edit top line of izctl.py so it has the path to the python
    # executable in your Zope installation, SOFTWARE_HOME/bin/python
  % chmod +x izctl.py
  % wget http://www.zope.org/Members/klm/ZopeDebugging/zope.conf
  % wget http://www.zope.org/Members/klm/ZopeDebugging/custom_zodb.py
    # Now (if you appropriately edited izctl.py's #! "magic number")
    # you're ready to enter the debug prompt:
  % ./izctl.py debug
    [... interactive session ...]

    # When you want to shutdown the ZEO server:
  % ./izctl.py stop_zeo