lame newbie product intallation q's...
Greets Folks: I have really basic question- I want to run a couple different Zope/Plone sites. My assessment is that multiple zope instances offer a better fit for my needs than VHM. Some products will be shared between sites, and others not. My question is where to best install these products and why? Plone docs say INSTANCE_HOME. Seems rather redundant to install multiple copies, so can just maintain one plone product dir somewhere and symlink as needed. Else another possibility is to just put into top level /usr/local/www/Zope/Products dir and let all instances inherit. Or is there some downside to this?? Enlightenment appreciated. Thanks bunches. -- Best regards, Ken Gunderson GPG Key-- 9F5179FD "Freedom begins between the ears." -- Edward Abbey
Ken Gunderson wrote: zope 2.7 has better facilities to run multiple instances from a single install. have you tried it yet ?
Greets Folks:
I have really basic question- I want to run a couple different Zope/Plone sites. My assessment is that multiple zope instances offer a better fit for my needs than VHM. Some products will be shared between sites, and others not. My question is where to best install these products and why? Plone docs say INSTANCE_HOME. Seems rather redundant to install multiple copies, so can just maintain one plone product dir somewhere and symlink as needed. Else another possibility is to just put into top level /usr/local/www/Zope/Products dir and let all instances inherit. Or is there some downside to this?? Enlightenment appreciated. Thanks bunches.
On Monday 17 May 2004 02:44 pm, sathya wrote:
Ken Gunderson wrote: zope 2.7 has better facilities to run multiple instances from a single install. have you tried it yet ?
Precisely what I am doing. I have Zope-2.7 with multiple instances. Dir structure like this: /usr/local/www/Zope/Products /usr/local/www/Zope/lib etc. and then instances w/in: /usr/local/www/Zope/instance1/Products /usr/local/www/Zope/instance2/Products /usr/local/www/Zope/instance3/Products It seems logical that one could put shared products under the top level Product dir (i.e. /usr/local/www/Zope/Products), let each instance inherit as needed, then put custom productxyz for instance1 into that instance's Products dir. But that's not what I seem to get from reading the docs, so am concerned there might be some "hidden" consequence not readily apparent to us newbie types... Also occurs to me that might be best from maintainability for ease of future upgrades to just put products, e.g. Plone, in their own dir somewhere out of the Zope tree and then symlink as needed back into each instance's Product dir. Seems to be more than one way to do it. I'm pretty experienced Unix sysadmin, but I don't have explicit experience with Zope, so I'd appreciate any insights those who've gone before may provide. Thanks bunches. -- Best regards, Ken Gunderson GPG Key-- 9F5179FD "Freedom begins between the ears." -- Edward Abbey
Ken Gunderson wrote:
On Monday 17 May 2004 02:44 pm, sathya wrote:
Ken Gunderson wrote: zope 2.7 has better facilities to run multiple instances from a single install. have you tried it yet ?
Precisely what I am doing. I have Zope-2.7 with multiple instances. Dir structure like this:
/usr/local/www/Zope/Products /usr/local/www/Zope/lib etc.
and then instances w/in:
/usr/local/www/Zope/instance1/Products /usr/local/www/Zope/instance2/Products /usr/local/www/Zope/instance3/Products
It seems logical that one could put shared products under the top level Product dir (i.e. /usr/local/www/Zope/Products), let each instance inherit as needed, then put custom productxyz for instance1 into that instance's Products dir. But that's not what I seem to get from reading the docs, so am concerned there might be some "hidden" consequence not readily apparent to us newbie types...
above sounds good to me. adding plone via symlinks is also cool. that way you will have some flexibility linking in different versions of plone across instances if theres a need ...
Also occurs to me that might be best from maintainability for ease of future upgrades to just put products, e.g. Plone, in their own dir somewhere out of the Zope tree and then symlink as needed back into each instance's Product dir.
Seems to be more than one way to do it. I'm pretty experienced Unix sysadmin, but I don't have explicit experience with Zope, so I'd appreciate any insights those who've gone before may provide.
Thanks bunches.
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