Zope HOWTO

This page documents how to use Zope with Funtoo Experimental, which currently has good Zope support.

First Steps

First, you will need to use Funtoo Experimental and emerge Zope:

# emerge --jobs=10 zope

Currently, to get this to complete successfully, you must add the following line to /etc/portage/package.use:

>=net-zope/namespaces-zope-0 Shared Products Shared.DC zope.app

Zope is now installed.

First Project

Zope should be used by a regular user account, not as the root user.

The first step in using Zope is to ensure that you are using a regular user account. Create a new directory called zope_test:

$ cd
$ mkdir zope_test

Now, enter the directory, and create an "instance", which is a set of files and directories that are used to contain a Zope project:

$ cd zope_test
$ /usr/lib/zope-2.13/bin/mkzopeinstance

You will see the following output:

Please choose a directory in which you'd like to install
Zope "instance home" files such as database files, configuration
files, etc.

Directory: instance
Please choose a username and password for the initial user.
These will be the credentials you use to initially manage
your new Zope instance.

Username: admin
Password: ****
Verify password: **** 

Now, we will start our Zope instance:

$ cd instance
$ bin/runzope

ZMI

Now that Zope is running, you can visit localhost:8080 in your Web browser. You will see a nice introductory page to Zope.

If you now go to the localhost:8080/manage URL, you will be prompted to log in. Enter the username and password you specified. You are now logged in to the ZMI (Zope Management Interface.)