Re: ZAnnot server and Windows

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Dan Brickley wrote:

>* Charles McCathieNevile <[email protected]> [2003-01-18 20:24-0500]
>>
>> The very rough draft of instructions that I am working on is at
>> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/annotation_demo_server_report/zannot-inst
>> if anyone wants a preview of an unstable and incomplete draft...
>>
>
>Thanks, this is a good start. I'm trying to test this under Debian. Brief notes so far:
>
>apt-get install zope
>...just worked. It sets up a user and runs the server for you too.
>
>Default Zope port: seems to be 9673 rather than 8080, currently at least. This
>confused me for a few minutes.

Presumably this is to do with the way debian is set up. I'll note it..

>http://localhost:9673/manage/
>
>There isn't a Debian package of ZAnnot that I'm aware of, so (via Google --
>Charles can you add a link to the ZAnnot pages?) I follow the instructions in
>http://www.zope.org/Members/Crouton/ZAnnot/readme

Yep, did that about 10 minutes before your message :-)
>
>Then closing browser and restarting it, I log into http://localhost:9673/manage/
>as the annouser I just created.
>
>I'm now at step: "3. Add an annotation server object" of the
>http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/reports/annotation_demo_server_report/zannot-inst
>howto, and this is where I get lost.
>
I suggested apt-getting python2.1-xml in my instructions. With minimal
experience of debain packages and no test sytem I am open to all
suggestions...

>I successfully create a folder called 'anno' and a server inside it called 'server'.
>
>Seems OK so far, but I've not tested things further yet. Visiting
>http://localhost:9673/anno/server on the offchance it returns a page didn't work,
>the browser just hangs. Not sure if that is because there's no data there, because
>the access control settings are wrong, or some other reason.

If you configure your favourite annotea client to post anotations to and get
them from http://localhost:9673/anno/server you should be able to annotate
something, and then query for annotations on that thing and get the results.

Unlike the W3C server I don't think the ZAnnot server provides a default
HTML form interface - if you don't talk annotea to it you get no joy...

cheers, and thanks for your results...

chaals