How To Install a PLONE CMS (Python, Plone) On Debian

0 Preliminary Note

I assume you have already set up a basic Debian Sarge system. You can set up your system as described on the first two pages of this tutorial: The Perfect Setup - Debian Sarge (3.1)

This tutorial shows how to install and use Plone with Python and Plone on Debian.

Pre-requisite:

You must create many folders: "Be Careful, you must login with an account user and not under root !!" And you must create a login  user for Zope/Plone

cd /home/zopy

mkdir zinstance

mkdir tools

cd tools

mkdir python

mkdir zope

mkdir packages

Download some software: Zope-2.9.4, python 2.4.3, Plone 2.5.

cd packages

wget http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.9.4/Zope-2.9.4-final.tgz

wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.3/Python-2.4.3.tgz

wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/plone/Plone-2.5.tar.gz

1 Pre-requisite for Python:

You must use your login "root" for install the next products !

apt-get install gcc

apt-get build-dep gcc

apt-get install libmxml1

apt-get install python2.4-xml

apt-get install python-libxml2

apt-get install python-imaging

2 Install Python-2.4.3:

 You must use your login "user" for install Python ! (not under root)

cd /home/zopy/tools/packages

tar -xvzf Python-2.4.3.tgz

cd Python-2.4.3

./configure --prefix=/home/zopy/tools/python/

make

make install

Be careful, a library necessary for the installation of zope is missing.

cp /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/zlib.so /home/zopy/tools/python/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/

3 Install Zope 2.9.4:

  You must use your login "user" for install Python ! (not under root)

cd /home/zopy/tools/packages

tar -xvzf Zope-2.9.4-final.tgz

cd Zope-2.9.4-final

./configure --with-python=/home/zopy/tools/python/bin/python2.4 --prefix=/home/zopy/tools/zope/

make

make install

Now, you create an instance:

/home/zopy/tools/zope/bin/mkzopeinstance.py

You choose this install directory:

Directory: /home/zopy/zinstance/

You must choose a username and password.

Username = admin

Passwd = ******

Now, you run zinstance:

cd /home/zopy/zinstance/bin/

./zopectl start

4 Manage Zope web:

Congratulations for your Zope install.

Now, you can run Firefox or Internet Explorer and enter this link:

http://localhost:8080/manage or http://192.X.X.X:8080/manage

5 Install Plone-2.5:

  You must use your login "user" for install Python ! (not under root)

cd /home/zopy/tools/packages

tar -xvzf Plone-2.5.tar.gz

cd Plone-2.5

There is a compatibility problem with Zope 2.9.4 and you must remove this folder Five:

rm -R Five

rsync -av * /home/zopy/zinstance/Products/

Now you must reboot zinstance:

cd /home/zopy/zinstance/bin/

./zopectl restart

6 Manage Zope web with plone:

You run: http://localhost:8080/manage or http://192.X.X.X:8080/manage

You can create a plone site:

This link is: http://localhost:8080/plone or http://192.X.X.X:8080/plone

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