WebLog

Apr 19, 2003 Back after more than a year! I spent 2 days learning about and figuring out how to redirect webdav to a backend zope from a firewall ... details in Webdav_NAT

Feb 16, 2002 helping test CMFVirtualFolder by Gary Poster

Feb 10, 2002 Disaster_Recovery for zope 2.5

Feb 7, 2002 research on CMF within a CMF

Feb 4, 2002 worked out a procedure for spreading zope load on to Mac_OS_X on the firewalled intranet

Feb 2, 2002 Inspired by a thread on zope mailing list, I wrote a du-syle utility du which I put into my custom skin (du?details=1 show a listing with the size of each object recursively. You can change to details=1000000 to see details only for objects over 1 Meg; or any size in bytes )

Jan 29, 2002 Handout for a talk on Zope and Educational Applications (and a plain english version Handout2)

Jan 28, 2002 started http://knowplace.ca/schoolforge for Eduml Research and Exercises

Jan 26, 2002 joined [email protected] discussion about XML_in_Education

Jan 25, 2002 starting page on Mac_OS_X

Jan 24, 2002 Begun study of ZEO_Replication

Jan 23, 2002 wrote CMF_Creator on how to change ownership of CMF objects and related issues

Jan 19, 2002 Wow, 10 days since the last entry; and yet I have been eating and drinking CMF all the time. I really like CMF.

Jan 9, 2002 I must be careful not to allow Anonymous User role have more permissions than Authenticated role. This led to double login authentication on frames and other redirection strangeness. ( see Trouble section of etcUserFolder_to_XUF)

Jan 8, 2002 Struggles with exUserFolder (with version 0.3, if I choose the wrong group name in etcUserFolder_to_XUF, I get a serious mess; can't access folder even as manager; have to restart zope and/or use WebDav to delete offending exUserFolder.

Jan 7, 2002 I wonder if I should move this wiki to http://zdp.zope.org or maybe ask for a link to here.

Jan 6, 2002 I discover Replicator for student and teacher WorkStations

Jan 5, 2002 thinking about how to use CMF_in_Education in a course/school/learning community context

Jan 4, 2002

• wrote a working but brutish debian zope-zeo un-attended ZopeRestart script
• Apache SSL Troubleshooting to give zope https: access . Someone else had the same issues: solution merci http://www.linux-sottises.net . Solution is to create my own SSLcertificate
• PostgresSQL Issues

Jan 3, 2002

• I am intrigued by
  • TheJester's Squib Product because it is postgresql-based conferencing, just like what I have done with Eduml. I would like to check it out.
  • ZopeMessages Product because it combines various instant messenging and webmail concepts into one
  • ZenCarto Product for teaching mapping skills via zope
• I would like a reliable ZopeRestart method for debian which works with ZEO
• I just tried the complete Setup_School_Servers procedure on a production school server and made a few corrections/annotations. The good news is the procedure works and helped me not forget anything (this time)

Jan 2, 2002

• I found a tiny bug in Redirector v.2.0 in line 111 of Redirector.py there is t missing in target (Redirector maintainer, [email protected], fixed it same day!)
• exUserFolder Trouble: (fixed by downgrading to version 0.3)
  • found a bug in exUserFolder ... unsliceable object line 661 in exUserFolder.py for all the settings I have tried so far , and when I turn on cookies, the error moves to line 882 (also with the auth variable) and gives a LoginRequired error. Commenting out the conditional (forcing return None) removes the Error message but makes it impossible to login (incorrect password errormessage)
  • exUserFolder with basic authentication seems to corrupt the folder such that it can no longer be seen by webdav ... needs to be deleted and recreated (see recipe in etcUserFolder_to_XUF ... but cookies do not seem to cause this corruption
  • tried exUserFolder on 3 different zope installations include one pristine (nothing but exUserFolder and base) and the results are all identical
  • tried with both exUserFolder version 0.4 (dev) and 0.3 (stable). same thing except that for 0.3, basic authentication does not cause errors, but I still cannot authenticate. Then after doing a restart of the zope process, and checking permissions issues, it worked with version 0.3 (stable).
• WebDav Trouble: (fixed by switching to zope 2.4.3)
• DavFS Trouble: can compile but can't load due to unknown kernel symbols

Jan 1, 2002

• I start this wiki folder by rewriting Create_Debian_Package and Setup_School_Servers

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