Installation

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General

Single Sign On with Active Directory
This will show how to install Plone on a fresh install of Debian 5 that will authenticate with Active Directory for a single sign on (SSO) using either kerberos or mod_ntlm2 for authentication. This site will be an intranet with apache2 in front of the Plone site over SSL.
The novice steps from www.plone.org to mysite running plone
Some links and references ordered in a needed way

Linux

Create, configure, and maintain a robust Plone and Zope installation
In this tutorial, Matt Rohrer from Prognostikos explains how to install and configure Plone and Zope from source for a public facing web site.
Installing Plone on Ubuntu 6.10 Server
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.
Plone 3 on a cPanel server started by daemontools (supervise)
Some notes I made while I installed Plone3 on a server controlled by cPanel. Plone is started/stopped and monitored by daemontools.
Plone on Debian (Etch)
Most important parts you need to know about using Plone on Etch the Debian-way and with a buildout environment
Problem deploying Unified Installer on Linux 64b
If you experience problems deploying versions of Plone 4 requiring python 2.6 on 64b platforms or distributions, this may help
Repair a Plone 3.1 buildout
Since the release of early Plone 4 distributions, there has been a problem running bin/buildout on existing Plone 3.1 buildouts. Here's what to look for and how to fix it.
Startup Script for Debian
This is based on http://plone.org/documentation/kb/simple-etc-rc-d-init-d-script-for-zeocluster and edited to work with Plone3 and Debian

Mac

Hosting on Mac OS X
A discussion of production Plone installations on Mac OS X
Repair a Plone 3.1 buildout
Since the release of early Plone 4 distributions, there has been a problem running bin/buildout on existing Plone 3.1 buildouts. Here's what to look for and how to fix it.

Windows

Running Plone on Windows
This document explains how to start and run the latest Plone (Plone 4.1.4) on Windows 7. This document explains post-installer steps on how to start and enter into a Plone site.
Compiling python modules for win32
How to compile various python modules for win32.
Enable Indexing of pdf and word docs with Windows in Five steps:three minutes of your times without problems!
Very Simple Five istructions to index pdf and word documents in Plone with Windows
Hosting on Windows
A discussion of production Plone hosting on Windows.
Install ZEO on Windows
How to migrate a Plone instance created using the Windows installer over to ZEO.
Plone 4 Windows Installer Notes
As of Plone 4.0.9 there are new Windows installers being provided to the community. These installers behave differently than previous versions. This document explains the changes and the rationale behind them.
Repair a Plone 3.1 buildout
Since the release of early Plone 4 distributions, there has been a problem running bin/buildout on existing Plone 3.1 buildouts. Here's what to look for and how to fix it.
Run Plone off CD-Rom
Put Zope and Plone on a live CD-ROM for demonstration purposes
Setting up Buildout Using the Windows Installer for Plone
All the steps necessary to set up a buildout environment on Windows system using the Plone Windows installer as a base.
Virtual Hosting serveral sites under Windows
This howto explains how to use the VirtualHostMonster to host several sites under Windows.