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Frequently Asked Questions.
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  2. About Plone
  3. Getting Plone
  4. Installing Plone
  5. Configuring Plone
  6. Administering Plone
  7. Customizing Plone
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Installing Plone

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  1. CMFPlone and the other CMF products are not in the list of installed zope products but I have installed them.
  2. How can I make sure my BSD Python has enough stack?
  3. How do I tell which version of Plone I am running?
  4. How do I upgrade to a newer release of Plone?
  5. I add a plone site: Error Type: Attribute Error, Error Value: get
  6. On Windows XP I get "No python installation found in the registry" when installing certain Products
  7. What kind of server is recommended for Plone?
  8. What are the recommended versions of Zope, CMF and Python required to run Plone?
  9. Multiple Plone sites using the Windows/Mac Installers or using port-base
  10. Why does LiveSearch return all entries, and Search returns nothing?
  11. Why don't I get thumbnails for my images?
  12. Why won't Plone start on Windows 2003?
  13. How Do I Install Python Modules To The Unified Installer?
  14. I see <Products.Five.metaclass.Plone object at ...> when trying to access my Plone instance

Configuring Plone

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  1. How do I integrate with LDAP / Active Directory / Open Directory?
  2. Plone slow? How to make a small Plone site go fast!
  3. Can I change the default language?
  4. Can I create a Plone site inside my existing Plone site?
  5. How can I securely manage Plone remotely over SSL?
  6. How do I add a role?
  7. How do I add to the list of default display choices for a folder?
  8. How do I enable Wiki-style markup?
  9. How do I turn off Member area creation?
  10. How do you allow Anonymous posting of the News section?
  11. How scalable is Plone?
  12. How to use Plone with lighttpd
  13. The setup of Plone and Zope on Windows isn't the same as regular Zope. How is it set up?
  14. What does "Allow discussion" mean?
  15. Why do I get MemoryError under FreeBSD when my server has tons of free physical memory?
  16. How can I change reStructuredText header levels?
  17. How do I enable the syndication tab in Plone 3.0?
  18. What do I paste into the "JavaScript for web statistics support" box in Plone 3?
  19. Where did the Navigation portlet go in Plone 3.0?
  20. Where did the "undo" and "preferences" links go in Plone 3.0

Administering Plone

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  1. Plone slow? How to make a small Plone site go fast!
  2. Help! Zope won't start!
  3. How do I add MyType as a default page for a folder?
  4. How do I put Plone into read-only mode?
  5. How do I set the default index document
  6. How do you specify who is the reviewer of the site?
  7. I added the product X to zope but I can't add it to plone.
  8. I can't log in to my Plone site after setting it up behind Apache
  9. I can't seem to log out of my Plone site - what's wrong?
  10. I get memory errors running Plone on NetBSD, why?
  11. I locked myself out from my Plone instance; what can I do?
  12. I need to upload lots of images/files to my Plone site, what's the best way?
  13. I want to translate my site to an another language, how?
  14. Importing Plone 1.0/2.0 content into a Plone 2.1 site generates a "maximum recursion depth exceeded" error
  15. When I am running Zope2.6 and Plone I see this, "global name localzone is not defined"
  16. Where are the Plone logs stored?
  17. Where is my site actually stored? How can I move my Plone instance between different servers? What should I back up?
  18. Why does LiveSearch return all entries, and Search returns nothing?
  19. Why is the Plone Controller causing ZoneAlarm (or other firewall) to raise a warning?
  20. How can I find the items over a particular size?
  21. Why do I get MemoryError under FreeBSD when my server has tons of free physical memory?
  22. Why don't I get thumbnails for my images?
  23. How Do I Install Python Modules To The Unified Installer?
  24. How do I pack the ZODB?
  25. How do I restart Zope?
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