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Plone 4.0.x does not start on Windows

Plone 4 does not start on Windows. After pressing start button in Plone controller, the start process seem to be running but comes back to a stopped state after a while.

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Command-line usage is needed in order to get further information about a possible problem.

  • Start command prompt
  • Go to C:\Program Files\Plone
  • Try starting Zope process in foreground mode from the command line. All error output comes into your command window and you can copy-paste this information to your question on a mailing list or IRC:
bin\instance.exe fg

Windows related bugs

Please see this bug regarding Zope and Windows (plone.org account needed).