It may be worth looking at a Linux distro that includes a package for Plone. For example, Debian as a package called plone-site, that installs Plone, Zope, all the required libraries, etc. You get a preconfigured Zope instance, and you just add a Plone site to it using the Zope Management Interface.
--Ian On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 09:59 +0100, Ola Andersson wrote: > I have just discovered Plone and plan to create a test environment. I have > been looking for some documentation and a thread confirming what the web > server requirements are for a user install in a linux environment and if I > got it right I need to following to be able to run the Unified Installer, > > 1. Web Server running e.g. Linux, > 2. Support for Python and Python Image Library > 3. Zope installed > 4. Have the following installed: gcc, the GNU Compiler Collection, g++, the > C++ extensions for gcc, > GNU make, GNU tar (Can anyone tell me if any of these are optional? I am new > to these and do not understand what they are for) > > > I understand that the unified installer contains Python, Zope, Plone, a > couple of system libraries and some Python libraries which should take care > of the 2 & 3 above. Does it also contain the necessary mentioned under > number 4 above? > > Do I need any other components to complete a successful install? > > Kind Regards > Ola > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Setup mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
