Installing Plone on Ubuntu 6.10 Server

by Bhuvan Pasham — last modified Dec 06, 2009 09:27 PM

Installing Plone on Ubuntu server (installed with server CD) should take about 30 minutes but could find a straight forward guide anywhere. This How-To is a short step-by-step for installation.

I'm NOT a Linux or Plone Guru.

I tried to build a Plone on Ubuntu Server and it took four evenings to make the install work, as there is no clear step-by-step guide on how to do this. I tried document all the valid steps of the installation and repeated the whole install at a stretch and this works. Thought it as a good idea to share with other newbies like me.

I used Ubuntu 6.10 Server CD and Plone Universal Installer for this exercise.

Download the latest Ubuntu server Installation CD image from http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/ubuntu/releases/edgy/ubuntu-6.10-server-i386.iso
Burn the image to CD
Insert the disk in the CDROM drive and start the system. Make sure that the first boot device is the CD
Follow thru the instructions of setup in Normal Mode (default).
During DHCP configuration, select DHCP with hostname option.
For Partitioner select with LVM option.
the Server type select LAMP server option.
After rebooting the server Install dependencies

Install GCC:
```
sudo apt-get install gcc
```
Install G++:
```
sudo apt-get install g++
```
Install make:
```
sudo apt-get install make
```

Install Python module (mod_python) for Apache 2 (This step is purely Optional)

sudo aptitude install libapache2-mod-python

sudo nano /etc/apache2/mods-available/mod_python.conf

add the following lines

AddType application/x-httpd-python .py
AddHandler mod_python .py
PythonHandler mod_python.publisher
PythonDebug On

save

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
sudo ln -s ../mods-available/mod_python.conf mod_python.conf
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Install readline libraries (recommended - NOT mandatory) from

cd /home/<username>
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/readline5/readline5_5.2.orig.tar.gz

Unpack and Install:

gunzip < readline5_5.2.orig.tar.gz | tar -x
cd readline-5.2/
./configure
make
sudo make install

Download Plone Universal Installer

cd /home/<username>

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/plone/Plone-2.5.2-UnifiedInstaller.tgz?use_mirror=osdn   
       or from                 
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/plone/Plone-2.5.2-UnifiedInstaller.tgz

unpack the installer:

gunzip < Plone-2.5.2-UnifiedInstaller.tgz | tar -x
cd Plone-2.5.2-UnifiedInstaller

install Plone:
```
sudo ./install.sh
```

Install Location

Plone installed at /opt/Plone-2.5.2
Python installed at /opt/Plone-2.5.2/Python-2.4.4
ZEO cluster (server and 2 clients) installed and configured at /opt/Plone-2.5.2/zeocluster
Zope Products folder at /opt/Plone-2.5.2/zeocluster/Products
Data.fs (ZODB) at /opt/Plone-2.5.2/zeocluster/server/var

Admin Password

A random administrator password is generated during the install. The password is located at /opt/Plone-2.5.2/adminPassword.txt
This is NOT the place where you change the Admin password. This is only a log file.

Start Plone server

sudo /opt/Plone-2.5.2/zeocluster/bin/startcluster.sh

Add Zope/Plone to start automatically at Boot

sudo cp /opt/Plone-2.5.2/zeocluster/bin/startcluster.sh /etc/init.d
sudo update-rc.d myscript start 51 S .

(Do not forget the dot: . )

Reboot the server and check every thing is working fine.

This concludes the Installation.
Additional Tasks include configuring apache Reverse Proxy, installing addons etc.

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Installing Plone on Ubuntu 6.10 Server

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