[Setup] Plone/ZWiki on Server with Existing IIS sites

[Philip Kilner]

Hi Eric,

Eric Frost wrote:
> Does that make sense what I did or am I missing something? Could I run the 
> new Plone/ZWiki on port 80 and still run the existing IIS sites on port 80 
> as well?
> 

Yes, you can only have one application listening on a given port on a
given IP, so if you do not have an alternate IP, you must use an
alternate port.

Alternatively, you can put both Zope/Plone and IIS behind Apache -
Apache would run on port 80, Zope/Plone can stay on port 82, and IIS
would also be on a non-standard port.

As Alan says, you could get the same effect using a product which gives
IIS proxying capabilities like the Enfold product. In a heavy-duty
Windows shop I would (do, in fact) use the Enfold product which can do a
great deal more than solve this problem - however, to solve this single
problem Apache seems the best bet, not least because it is
free/open-source, cross platform and well-understood.

> Some people are already complaining because they can't get to the site, 
> probably because of a firewall on their end.
> 

This is a good reason to keep the "public" view of your sites as
standard as possible, regardless of the "real" set-up.

> So, am I right in thinking I should find a new server to host this on?
> 

It's not absolutely necessary, but does have other advantages.

> So next question -- I just downloaded and installed everything using the 
> latest Plone - Latest release: Plone 2.1.1
> 
> Would it be easy to migrate this to a hosting provider - 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=plone+hosting and do you recommend any and 
> will installing ZWiki be a problem?
> 

We have hosting with Zettai - the ZWiki product was pre-installed on our
set-up.

HTH

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Regards,

PhilK

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