How to Set up Zope and Plone in FC5

[wshawn]

Setting Up Plone / Zope

We are setting up plone on a clean install of FC5. Some steps of this how to can be completely skipped and will be marked optional. Our system was intentionally partitioned for security and stability. There are many ways of doing this, but for this instance we chose:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 8.0G 1.4G 6.2G 19% /
/dev/hda1 104M 15M 84M 15% /boot
tmpfs 264M 0 264M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 193G 728M 183G 1% /home
/dev/hda5 4.2G 76M 3.9G 2% /tmp
/dev/hda2 11G 3.2G 6.7G 33% /usr
/dev/hda6 17G 296M 16G 2% /var

** You will need the root password multiple times during this setup

Prerequisite: Setting up Apache and get it answering web requests
I am not going to rehash Apache howto's which have been written. Ask any of those questions in those areas please.
SharedMedia http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showpos...43&postcount=6 (quick install)
Stanton Finely http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...notes.html#Web (Detailed Install)
Fedora Jim http://www.fedorajim.homelinux.com/p...tualhosts.html (two sites)

You should really have apache running and functioning before starting the plone set up, not because of Zope or Plone, just to check connections and it only takes a few minutes. Possible issues you will hit: Router not port forwarding, SELinux not set correctly, and httpd not running.

Step 1: Backup your configs (not really optional)


** The only caveat here is that you will need to have room for the archives to be made
Typically on systems we admin we make ourselves archives of the partitions which get most admins out of jams the quickest and where most packages are setup and configured.

Open a root terminal (and keep it open for this howto). This can be done by going to Applications | Accessories | Terminal

su –
cd /
tar -czvf etc.tar.gz etc/
tar -czvf usr.tar.gz usr/
cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.working

Step 2: Installing the packages

In Step 1's terminal type:

yum install plone zope python

Step 3: Setting up Zope
Make sure Zope is funtional

service zope start

Open Firefox and navigate to http://localhost:8080/

This should startup the Zope quick start page. Leave the browser open. You will also notice the red error: “WARNING: you are running Zope 2.8.X with python 2.4.X, this is not a supported combination. Don't file bugreports or ask for support on zope.org.” I have not found any issues with this as of yet.

Stop Zope so we can add a user. Change the “username” and “password” to your Zope User. Restart Zope.

service zope stop
zopectl adduser username password
service zope start

Back in FireFox Click on the Zope Management Interface link near the bottom of text in the page and log in using the credentials you just created. http://localhost:8080/manage

Step 4: Creating A Plone Instance


Click on the “Root Folder” link in the left menu from the Zope management screen
In the Drop down box in the right menu, select Plone Site and click the Add button
In the three fields Enter a name and use only ASCII characters.
For our purposes place your full domain name in each of the three input boxes
REPLACE yourdomain.com with your domain or dyndns domain. Ignore the text which says only letters A-Z are allowed.

example:
ID: yourdomain.com
Title: yourdomain.com
Description: Our Plone Installation for yourdomain.com

After a few seconds you should be greeted with a Plone front page in the right content page.

By typing in the following URL in your browser's address bar you can access the Plone site directly:
http://localhost:domain.com/

Plone is now working


Step 5: SELinux


In Gnome go to System | Administration | Security Level and Firewall


Enter the root password when asked and then select the SELinux tab.
Scroll down to the httpd section and click the arrow to the left.
The following item will need to be checked:

Allow HTTPD scripts and modules to connect to the network

Everything else is unchecked on our installation and not needed.


Step 6: Apache forwarding



I assume you have your apache working. If not you will have to utilize the mapping settings in the virtualsitemonster in Zope.

Back in the terminal window

cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.noPlone
gedit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Locate your virtual settings you used to get the server working.
You can either comment them out by placing # on the front of the lines or delete the areas all together:

NameVirtualHost yourdomain.com:80
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
NameVirtualHost yourdomain.com:443
</IfModule>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName yourdomain.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:8080/VirtualHostBase/http/yourdomain.com:80/yourdomain.com/VirtualHostRoot/$1 [L,P]
</VirtualHost>

Replace all FOUR yourdomain.com with your domain name. We are using a dyndns name.

Save and exit gedit

Step 7: Restart

service zope restart
service httpd restart
exit

Step 8: Chkconfig

Go to System | Administrator | Server Settings | Services and make sure Httpd and Zope are set to autostart on boot up by place a check mark in the box and saving it.

Step 9: Hosts file (optional)


we edited the /etc/hosts file to include our dyndns

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 wshawn.homelinux.net wshawn

Finished
close the terminal

[wshawn]

.. reserved for later use

Update errors found to be fixable http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...ighlight=plone

[The_Jaymz]

Nice, straight-forward howto. You might also add that the unified installer at plone.org works REALLY well too.

[wshawn]

I chose to not refer to the unified installer for multiple reasons:

1) My intent was to stay with what was offered in the Fedora repositories for simplicity
2) When I ran the unified installer it failed at different points during some attempts and worked flawlessly in others. This was done on the same system completely prestined and reinstalled between Plone install.
3) The assumption is after the news that Redhat is pushing Plone that Fedora will have built in direct access to some very cool mods, so I chose to alleviate any possible problems with weird rpms coming from untrusted places.

[daverj]

Doesn't appear to be so simple:

after yum installing plone and zope:

[root@andromeda ~]# service zope start
Starting zope: [FAILED]

[root@andromeda init.d]# /usr/bin/zopectl -u zope start

....
File "/usr/lib/zope/lib/python/zope/app/component/adapter.py", line 28, in ?
class LocalSurrogate(zope.interface.adapter.Surrogate):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Surrogate'


any ideas?

davidj

[wshawn]

Have you followed the directions on setting up the dns and you httpd?

[daverj]

it has nothing to do with dns and httpd. A function in the application is unable to import another module. It is either an application issue or a python issue.

davidj

[wshawn]

I ran your error at the Plone site and they have no references to it. Are you installing under FC5 or FC6? I haven't installed plone under fc6 yet but will this week.

[daverj]

I think I have a python issue somewhere. Reading the source file, the module does in fact have a Surrogate attribute. I occasionally have other wierd python issues about importing modules and attributes. It doesn't really surprise me considering all the stuff I've done with /usr/lib/python2.4. I may just have to do a fresh install.

davidj

[observer]

Hi,
I need to change the password of plone installation that was setup following this tutorial, how can I do that

Thanks

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...sword+in+plone this thread should be closed IMO

[notageek]

@observer: This is a 3 year old thread. It is discouraged to bring up old thread on this forum.

The information you're looking for can be found in google search, as Demz posted. If you're still having problems, I suggest you open a new thread in either "General Support" or "Software".

Thread Closed!