Folks
Firstly, thanks to all those who replied... I am pleased to say
that I have an Test installation working .. Whoohoo..!
If anyone see's any gapping security, configuration holes or poor
practices, please drop me a line, otherwise, I have document the how's and
what's of what I finally ended up doing so that it might save someone else the
time, effort and frustration I had.
After much banging of heads, scratching of unmentionables and a "little"
bit of swearing, I think I have it pegged...
OK, start off with my major mistakes;
1) I chose to install the "pristine" application in a
/home/<user> directory,
this now appears to have been a bad choice due
to permissions and access issues.
I really just needed a non-root user account to
actually run Zope, not a non-root user account to install it
in...
2) I hadn't fully read and comprehended the zope.conf
comments
I have now read (numerous times) the comments and am
beginning to get a better understanding of the intracasacies
Our Environment;
CentOS 4.2 x86_64
cPanel Management
Zope 2.8.2-final, python 2.3.5, linux2
Python Version 2.3.5 (#2, Sep 28 2005, 03:41:37) [GCC 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.1)]
Python Version 2.3.5 (#2, Sep 28 2005, 03:41:37) [GCC 3.4.3 20050227 (Red Hat 3.4.3-22.1)]
What I have done now;
1) I have installed the "pristine" application under /usr/local/Zope,
configured zope to run as the original planned user
(zope.conf > effective-user parameter)
(I actually just copied the original, modified
zope.conf and runzope to suit)
2) Made the appropriate user directory for the department/group wishing
to run a Zope instance
3) NOTE: I think this part is theoretically correct but should be run as
the new user, not as root,
so as not to have to chown the user files afterwards,
I haven't tried this yet to see if that is right.
I ran (?as root?) /usr/localZope/bin/mkzopeinstance.py
to install the appropriate instance files in the
new users home directory (answer and remember the
appropriate login details)
3a) I then had to chown the files, but as I said, I think running
mkzopeinstance.py as the right user would negate this
4) Modify etc/zope.conf to set the effective-user, database size
limit and modify management ports to those
that are unused for any other application (also
modifying my firewall config to allow access)
5) Run bin/zopectl start - login with the appropriate credentials
used in the mkzopeinstance procedure
Check that everything looks to be ok
6) untar the appropriate componemts (I installed CMF and Plone) in to the
users products directory
Restart ZopeServer (zopectl
restart)
8) Select Root, add a new Plone Site, (Remember the name you give it for
use in the httpd rewrite rule below)
7) As I am running behind Apache, configure httpd.conf for the domain and
add Rewrite & Proxy directives and
rewrite rules to the new plone site
instance.
I
believe this allows me to achieve, multiple instances for multiple users, each
having their own ZopeServer to control, their own Plone and other component
control, I can manage DB size and disk usage through zope.conf (I assigned
read only rights to the users after I modified it) and bandwidth through
mod_bandwidth on apache. The users have normal FTP and email access to their own local
virtual machines without effecting any other services or users on the
machine.
I
now will be trying to setup MySQL access and some other components to try out,
document management etc and skins/themes is on the list the get my head
around.
Thanks again
Russ
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russell Winter
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 7:47 AM
To: zope@zope.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Zope] Beginners ConfusionFolks,I am trying to understand instances, any help or suggestions would be appreciated as I am obviously missing something.I would like to have each user having, either, their own Zope Server binaries (including CMF & Plone) in their home directories.Alternatively, as multiple Zope Servers on one machine will be quite a resource eater, (probably 20 main users) is it possible to have just one Zope Server and multiple instances of the database/CMF/Plone for the users? All user instances and content including the database entries would need to be accounted for in and installed in their own home directories to allow us to control and manage each user or groups bandwidth and quota's etc etc.Is this possible? If so, is there a how-to or something I have not found yet or some advice would be appreciated. I have several books on Zope now and none of them seem to describe instances or multiple user configurations in any detail.I am looking for each department/user/group to be able to manage, for the most part, their own web-services, but with us still managing the usual operating and application environments.Thanks a lot, regards,
Russ
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