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You're reading from Plone 3.3 Site Administration Manage your site like a Plone professional

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2010

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781847197047

Length 240 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Plone

Concepts

CMS

Author (1):

Alex Clark

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Plone 3.3 Site Administration

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Preface

1. Background

Site administration essentials
What you need to get started
About Plone installers
About Python software distributions
How to install Distribute—a framework for managing Python packages
How to install PIP: a more user friendly Python package installer
How to install Buildout—a tool for building software
More about Python software distributions
How to install a C compiler
How to install Subversion—a version control system
How to install Python with Buildout
Summary

2. Site Basics FREE CHAPTER

More about Buildout
Customizing site navigation
Adding new content types
Summary

3. Appearance

Installing themes with Buildout
Examining themes with Omelette and Python
Overview of theme package files
Creating a theme package with ZopeSkel
Examining themes in the Zope Management Interface
Making changes through the Web
Summary

4. Administration

Configuring mail settings in a development environment
User and group management: Out of the box
Users and groups management with LDAP
Summary

5. Deployment and Maintenance

Creating a production buildout
Backing up your database
Automating database backups
Restoring your database from a backup
Packing your database
Automate database packing
Rotating logs
Summary

6. Optimization

Caching background in the context of Plone
Installing CacheFu—a caching add-on for Plone
Installing Varnish—a caching agent
Installing Squid—a caching agent
Creating multiple instances with Buildout macros
Load balancing in the context of Plone
Installing Supervisor—a process manager
Understanding the software stack
Installing Munin plugins to analyze performance
Summary

7. Security

Restricting TCP/IP access to localhost or LAN host
Managing IP addresses and ports effectively
Configuring the Zope 2 effective user dynamically
Installing Cassandra to audit through the web (TTW) security
Applying security and bug fixes to Plone
Summary

8. The Future

Specifying package versions
Executing Buildout in offline mode
Analyzing the contents of our buildout
Staying calm when trouble arises
Upgrading to Plone 4
Summary

Index

Summary

That's it for this chapter. You have done another impressive amount of work, congratulations!

You have learned:

How Buildout configuration files work
How to add a Plone site with Buildout
How to customize navigation in Plone with add-ons
How to create a weblog with Plone using the Scrawl add-on

In the next chapter, we will learn how to use Buildout to install new themes.

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