[Zope] lame newbie product intallation q's...

[sathya]

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.
>