[Setup] Newbie question: Plone on IIS

[Andrew Jeffery]

I read about using different default ports for managing and viewing a Plone
site but was hoping I could use my spare IPs rather than play with
non-standard ports for websites. If I can do so by installing Apache, I'd be
interested, too. I will have no use for IIS after I have Plone sites to
replace my current sites.

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Andrew Jeffery - Vicon Publishing, Inc.
ajeffery at viconpublishing.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: setup-bounces at lists.plone.org [mailto:setup-bounces at lists.plone.org]
On Behalf Of Des Dougan
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:13 AM
To: setup at lists.plone.org
Subject: Re: [Setup] Newbie question: Plone on IIS

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:37 -0500, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> I'm using Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0. I have several live sites 
> but also several unused IP addresses. Is it possible to install Plone 
> to create a site on one of these spare IPs and not interfere with the 
> IIS sites? Eventually, the live, IIS sites will be replaced by the 
> Plone sites but I need to have both sets running for a time.
>  
> I'm sure this has been asked before (frequently?) so I await being 
> sent dozens of links to documentation. TIA
>  

No links here, I'm afraid - but a search of plone.org will pull up a bunch
of stuff. The short answer is that, by default, Plone uses port 8080, rather
than 80, so it will not impact your existing content until you do IIS's
equivalent of ProxyPass. Why don't you install Apache on the box to keep it
entirely separate - it's a better server than IIS anyway.

Regards,

Des