Re: plone: deploy website-editors.gnome.org and update to website-test.gnome.org

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

Hi Carsten,

Great work.

The website-editors.gnome.org is not up yet? Is this intentional?

Jaap

BTW are you planning to move the svn plone repo to the GNOME git repo?
Would be handier for other GNOME people to participate in setting up
the site

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 23:47, Carsten Senger<senger rehfisch de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> new configuration to deploy a development plone site and a permanent
> editors instance on socket.gnome.org are ready.
>
> I've updated the deployment README[1].
> It's a rather big change for the administrative part. The plone site is now
> splitted into two server processes:
>
>  * zope/plone on port 8090 (respectively 8091)
>  * deliverance on port 5000 (respectively 5001)
>
> Apache has to rewrite requests to the deliverance server.
>
> website-test.gnome.org
> ----------------------
> The buildout contains an update script for a continous build of the site.
> It brings the buildout up to date, drops the current test site and installs
> a new one.
> This means that with every update of the test site, previews changes are
> lost.
>
> website-editors.gnome.org
> -------------------------
> The editors instance is intended as a editing envirionment for the content
> team. It comes with backup scripts:
> bin/backup: A full, then incremental backupsbin/backup
> bin/restore: restore the last backup made by bin/backup
> bin/snapshotbackup: separte, full backups
> bin/repozo: the backend script that can be used with command line
> parameters.
>
> After running the buildout for website editors for the first time, there
> are some manuall steps to do that are not listed in the README. I will add
> them later:
>
> * change the admin password. By default, the user admin has the password
>  admin.
>  To change that log into the "ZMI": http://<hostname>:8091/manage
>  Go to acl_users -> users
>  Click on "Password" for the admin and set a new password
> * Log into the Plone Control Panel
>  http://website-editors.gnome.org/plone_control_panel as "admin"
> * Adjust the mail settings so mails from the plone site work
> * Remove the automatically created users in the plone site:
>  Go to "Users and Groups", click "Show all" and remove all users that are
>  not needed by checking the last box "Remove user" and "Apply Changes".
>  You can add new users now and reset the password for the remaining users.
>  They will get a Mail to set a new password.
>
> To do maintainance tasks it would be good to add another virtual host that
> points to the backend server on port 8091 and is accessible under a
> hostname like "zope.website-editors.gnome.org".
> website-editors.gnome.org does only expose the Plone frontend, not the
> underlying application server management interface (the "ZMI").
>
> ..Carsten
>
> [1]
> <http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/gnomeweb-plone/buildout/trunk/README.deployment>
>
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