[Zope] Zope Install Best Practice - Newbie Questions

[robert rottermann]

Russel,
we do install our zope/plone instances in a simmilar way you did.
in addition to the steps you described we the do the following
- make Zope-2.7 and Zope-2.8 a softlink to the respective source 
directory and then create the instances from
  the Zope-2.X/bin directory. the mkzope/zeoinstance scripts create 
startupscripts with hardcoded paths.
  With ZopeX a softlink you can easily make updates to minor new zope 
releases for all your instances
- in the zopeusers homedirectory we have a Products directory where we 
have all the products installed.
  In the instances/Product folders we then link to them. Again we have 
Plone-1/2/2.1 links pointing to
  the respective Releases, so we can make minor Plone updates without 
hassle.

robert
 
Russell Winter wrote:
>Folks,
> 
>First post from a real newbie, I have currently got Zope installed under a
>test server and would like to ensure that I get things right for our
>production environment. Being a complete newbie to Zope I would like to be
>sure I am doing things right and understood the numerous articles I have
>read, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>Currently, I made a user account; " zopeuser ", I installed Zope via this
>account and I can access the management interface without issues and managed
>to get a Plone installation working with mod_rewrite & mod_proxy via apache
>(we have a cPanel dedicated server). However, I think I may have made some
>fundamental administration or poor practice errors.
> 
>When I compiled Zope, my source is in the same directory as my final
>instance, is this a security issue or at least poor practice, is there a
>better way to do this? If, so could someone point me in the right procedural
>direction to install Zope.
> 
>I shall be uninstalling the instance I have, so a fresh install will be
>completed for the production instance. We are planning on running several
>Plone instances for different domain web-sites, so that each site can be
>managed separately by each different department.
> 
>Does anybody know of any issues that we are likely to bump in to running
>Zope under a cPanel based server, to date I have manually added Plone
>accounts in the httpd.conf but will also be adding a few standard cPanel
>Apache based domains through the control panel as well, in time.
> 
>Thanks for your thoughts, I am learning still and hopefully learning
>quickly, so hopefully my very basic questions will reduce over a short
>period of time <grin>.
>
> 
>
>Regards, 
>
>Russ Winter 
>
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