Saga of ZMySQLDA on Plone 2.5.x continues

I had hoped that I was done with installing ZMySQLDA on Plone, but it turns out there were some additional hiccups. ZMySQLDA was being recognized as a product in the Control Panel, but it disappeared from the drop down menu again. Looking at the event.log revealed that it was trying to extract files from an egg file into my personal user home directory, not the “plone” user that was created and under which the plone process was being run. Not exactly sure why this is happening, but I took the lazy way out and manually copied and pasted the MySQLdb folder and _mysql.so file into the Python directory. An added complication was that the _mysql.so had to be also copied into the ZMySQLDA directory.

 I really need to sit down and figure out all this egg and process configuration out, but am running out of time setting up for my summer courses.