Re: Upgrade 3.0RC1 to 3.0RC2

Thanks Steve, the process works fine - thanks!

I actually started plone RC2 after installing, then stopped and moved the
file over.  It did not like that, but when I followed your instructions
exactly it worked.

Steve McMahon wrote:
> 
> 1) Stop your old, RC1 install;
> 
> 2) rename your old install;
> 
> 3) Install RC2;
> 
> 4) Copy any products you installed in RC1 into similar locations in the 
> RC2 install;
> 
> 5) Copy the Data.fs from your old install over the Data.fs in your new 
> install;
> 
> 6) Start your new, RC2 install; visit your Plone site root via the ZMI 
> and use portal_migration to migrate your data from RC1 to RC2.
> 

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Plone - Web Server preparations

I have just discovered Plone and plan to create a test environment. I have
been looking for some documentation and a thread confirming what the web
server requirements are for a user install in a linux environment and if I
got it right I need to following to be able to run the Unified Installer,

1. Web Server running e.g. Linux,
2. Support for Python and Python Image Library
3. Zope installed
4. Have the following installed: gcc, the GNU Compiler Collection, g++, the
C++ extensions for gcc,
GNU make, GNU tar (Can anyone tell me if any of these are optional? I am new
to these and do not understand what they are for)

I understand that the unified installer contains Python, Zope, Plone, a
couple of system libraries and some Python libraries which should take care
of the 2 & 3 above.  Does it also contain  the necessary mentioned under
number 4 above?

Do I need any other components to complete a successful install?

Kind Regards
Ola

Re: Plone - Web Server preparations

 > Do I need any other components to complete a successful install?

No, but your install will benefit from a couple of additional libraries. 
 From the README:

Recommended libraries (install prior to running installer)
Development versions of packages are required for headers.
==========================================================
1) readline (Python command-line history)
      libreadline5 libreadline5-dev readline-common
2) libssl (SSL support, used by SecureMailHost for TLS)
      libssl libssl-dev

Ola Andersson wrote:
> I have just discovered Plone and plan to create a test environment. I have
> been looking for some documentation and a thread confirming what the web
> server requirements are for a user install in a linux environment and if I
> got it right I need to following to be able to run the Unified Installer,
> 
> 1. Web Server running e.g. Linux,
> 2. Support for Python and Python Image Library
> 3. Zope installed
> 4. Have the following installed: gcc, the GNU Compiler Collection, g++, the
> C++ extensions for gcc,
> GNU make, GNU tar (Can anyone tell me if any of these are optional? I am new
> to these and do not understand what they are for)
> 
> 
> I understand that the unified installer contains Python, Zope, Plone, a
> couple of system libraries and some Python libraries which should take care

Re: Installing as non-root

JJMB wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Just wondering if I can a pointer to some existing documentation (I assume
> some are out there) on how to install plone as a non-root user?

Well, installers aside, jut build Zope with a --prefix (on the config 
step) to a directory in your homedir, and then put the Plone products 
inside it.

I do that all the time.

         --jcc

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Re: Plone - Web Server preparations

It may be worth looking at a Linux distro that includes a package for
Plone.  For example, Debian as a package called plone-site, that
installs Plone, Zope, all the required libraries, etc.  You get a
preconfigured Zope instance, and you just add a Plone site to it using
the Zope Management Interface.

--Ian

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 09:59 +0100, Ola Andersson wrote:
> I have just discovered Plone and plan to create a test environment. I have
> been looking for some documentation and a thread confirming what the web
> server requirements are for a user install in a linux environment and if I
> got it right I need to following to be able to run the Unified Installer,
> 
> 1. Web Server running e.g. Linux,
> 2. Support for Python and Python Image Library
> 3. Zope installed
> 4. Have the following installed: gcc, the GNU Compiler Collection, g++, the
> C++ extensions for gcc,
> GNU make, GNU tar (Can anyone tell me if any of these are optional? I am new
> to these and do not understand what they are for)
> 
> 
> I understand that the unified installer contains Python, Zope, Plone, a
> couple of system libraries and some Python libraries which should take care
> of the 2 & 3 above.  Does it also contain  the necessary mentioned under
> number 4 above?
> 
> Do I need any other components to complete a successful install?
> 

Re: Plone - Web Server preparations

Ian Ball wrote:
> It may be worth looking at a Linux distro that includes a package for
> Plone.  For example, Debian as a package called plone-site, that
> installs Plone, Zope, all the required libraries, etc.  You get a
> preconfigured Zope instance, and you just add a Plone site to it using
> the Zope Management Interface.

We generally don't recommend that people use Debian packages or other 
packages, because these tend to be out of date and sometimes make it 
awkward to install third party components. If you're doing 
development/testing, you probably also want the instance to be installed 
locally in your home directory, not in /usr or /opt or whatever.

The Unified Installer is the best place to start on Linux, but it's also 
easy to set it up yourself. See 
http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/setup-from-source.

Martin

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RE: Re: Plone - Web Server preparations

Great, Thank you for your advice,

Kind regards
Ola

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Subject: [Setup] Re: Plone - Web Server preparations

Ian Ball wrote:
> It may be worth looking at a Linux distro that includes a package for
> Plone.  For example, Debian as a package called plone-site, that
> installs Plone, Zope, all the required libraries, etc.  You get a
> preconfigured Zope instance, and you just add a Plone site to it using
> the Zope Management Interface.

We generally don't recommend that people use Debian packages or other 
packages, because these tend to be out of date and sometimes make it 
awkward to install third party components. If you're doing 
development/testing, you probably also want the instance to be installed 
locally in your home directory, not in /usr or /opt or whatever.

The Unified Installer is the best place to start on Linux, but it's also 
easy to set it up yourself. See 
http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/setup-from-source.

Martin

Re: Problem upgrading from 2.14 to 2.53: KeyError: _Real

Many thanks to Nick for a thoughtful reply. As it turned out a PloneCal
folder (empty!) was the culprit. I discovered it by exporting each Plone
instance from 2.14 and importing into Plone 2.53 in turn, and one of them
generated the same '_real' error as the migration attempt had. Then I
imported content folders from that one instance, and again got the error on
one folder. Then took a guess that PloneCal in that folder was the cause,
and after confirming it with yet another import, deleted the folder from
Plone 2.14, and a normal migration could proceed. A bit tedious, but it
revealed the defective content. 

Dan

Nick Davis-3 wrote:
> 
> Dan Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> After migration attempt I get the error KeyError: '_real' 
>> It also appears in the ZMI left-hand column!
>> 
> 
> To make progress here's some ideas:
> 
> Before attempting portal_migration, make sure nothing is broken in ZMI.
> 
> Are all 3rd-party products in the new site compatible with Plone 2.5.3? 
> Get the new versions if required, before attempting migration.
> 
> Before attempting portal_migration make sure you don't have "rogue 
> customisations" floating around. Any customised versions of old versions 

Re: Taking a Plone site live

You'll want to put Apache in front of Plone, for security and convenience.
Apache will run on port 80, and redirect your domain name to the "real"
Zope/Plone location (something like localhost:8080/Plone). There's a lot of
good info on the Plone site about how to do this.

If you've put internal links into your site, you may need to change them to
domain links, or use something like ../../../thisfolder/thiscontent, which
will work regardless of the domain name.

Dan

mhaggerty wrote:
> 
> Cheers,
> I'm a newby using Plone to support a university project in New Zealand.
> I've successfully got Plone running on our research centre's server,
> changed the logo and a few graphics, added content and now have a site
> that's ready to go live. 
> I've also reserved a domain name, but don't know how to link my plone site
> to the domain name.
> I tried to search these forums, but I'm not finding anything. Probably
> because I don't know the right search terms...
> Can anyone help?
> Thanks!
>  
> 
> 

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