[Setup] multiple plone sites: need advice on how to set up
Alan Runyan
alan at enfoldsystems.com
Sun Jul 2 23:40:41 UTC 2006
how about adding this knowledge to plone.org/documentation?
-----Original Message-----
From: setup-bounces at lists.plone.org on behalf of Stuart L. Marshall
Sent: Sun 7/2/2006 3:44 PM
To: rawsystems at gmail.com
Cc: Setup at lists.plone.org
Subject: Re: [Setup] multiple plone sites: need advice on how to set up
Hi,
I think I may have got it now.
Steps:
1.) Edit zope.conf adding additional zodb_db sections as detailed
below.
2.) In the zope management interface choose: "ZODB Mount Point"
in the Add pull down. The mount points that were described in
the zope.conf zodb_db sections appear there but are not yet enabled.
The text in the form says:
"Use this form to finalize the mount points configured in zope.conf.
To make more mount points available, edit zope.conf."
Select the mount points (check boxes) and click the "Create selected
mount points" button. After that the mount points appear as folders
in the root folder.
3.) Go to the Root Folder and then click on the mount point of
choice to get inside of it.
4.) While inside the mount point use the pull down "Add" menu to
add a Plone Site. The plone site then lives in the new zope folder
which is the ".fs" file as specified in zope.conf.
Thanks for all the help, this is one of the burning issues that I
have been wanting to solve to allow us to use Plone. In particular
I want to allow multiple groups to have plone sites but don't want
to mix them all up in one data.fs file.
Now if I can figure out how to use FileSystemStorage I'll be in
business.
Stuart
Quoting rawsystems at gmail.com (rawsystems at gmail.com) on Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:42:35AM -0400:
> Create a folder, and then put your plone site under that new folder.
> Your new database points to the folder, and by virtual of that, your plone
> site is in the other database.fs.
> I'd don't know if there are other scenarios that work, but i know this one
> does.
>
> hth
>
> bobb
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart L. Marshall" <marshall at slac.stanford.edu>
> To: "Peter Simmons" <pete-lists at bcmpweb.com>
> Cc: <Setup at lists.plone.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 11:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Setup] multiple plone sites: need advice on how to set up
>
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm making progress but I must be missing the point somewhere.
> >
> >I've edited zope.conf as described and the multiple databases
> >exist in the management interface. So that works fine.
> >
> >But when I create a plone site, I don't see any way to configure
> >it to be stored in any place other than the main Data.fs.
> >
> >Is there some parameter in the zope management interface or do
> >I have to do something at a lower level?
> >
> >
> >Quoting Peter Simmons (pete-lists at bcmpweb.com) on Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at
> >02:27:36PM +1200:
> >>You need to give the 2 databases different mount points but everything
> >>else is the same.
> >>
> >>I.e. Data1.fs mount /
> >>i.e. Data2.fs mount /data2
> >>
> >>What we usually do (you are welcome to do what you want) is to leave
> >>default main entry alone, i.e. Data.fs mount /
> >>
> >>And add extras E.g.
> >>
> >><zodb_db client1>
> >> # client1 FileStorage database
> >> <filestorage>
> >> path $INSTANCE/var/client1_Data.fs
> >> </filestorage>
> >> mount-point /client1
> >> </zodb_db>
> >>
> >><zodb_db client2>
> >>
> >> # client2 FileStorage database
> >> <filestorage>
> >> path $INSTANCE/var/client2_Data.fs
> >> </filestorage>
> >> mount-point /client2
> >> </zodb_db>
> >>
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>Pete
> >>Stuart L. Marshall wrote:
> >>>I've looked and it says:
> >>>
> >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> # Database (zodb_db) section
> >>> #
> >>> # Description:
> >>> # A database section allows the definition of custom database
> >>> # and
> >>> # storage types. More than one zodb_db section can be defined.
> >>> #
> >>> # Default: unset.
> >>> # IMPORTANT: At least one database with a mount-point of
> >>> # "/"
> >>> # must be specified for Zope to start properly.
> >>>
> >>> <zodb_db main>
> >>> # Main FileStorage database
> >>> <filestorage>
> >>> path $INSTANCE/var/Data.fs
> >>> </filestorage>
> >>> mount-point /
> >>> </zodb_db>
> >>>
> >>> <zodb_db temporary>
> >>> # Temporary storage database (for sessions)
> >>> <temporarystorage>
> >>> name temporary storage for sessioning
> >>> </temporarystorage>
> >>> mount-point /temp_folder
> >>> container-class Products.TemporaryFolder.TemporaryContainer
> >>> </zodb_db>
> >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>>Now please keep in mind I have not done this before!
> >>>
> >>>If I want to have 2 Data.fs files, say Data1.fs, Data2.fs
> >>>it is not clear what to do. I can write:
> >>>
> >>> <zodb_db main1>
> >>> # Main FileStorage database
> >>> <filestorage>
> >>> path $INSTANCE/var/Data1.fs
> >>> </filestorage>
> >>> mount-point /
> >>> </zodb_db>
> >>>
> >>> <zodb_db main2>
> >>> # Main FileStorage database
> >>> <filestorage>
> >>> path $INSTANCE/var/Data2.fs
> >>> </filestorage>
> >>> mount-point /
> >>> </zodb_db>
> >>>
> >>>But then what happens in the zope management interface when I
> >>>go to create a plone site? How do I associate one with Data1.fs
> >>>and the second with Data2.fs.
> >>>
> >>>I did not find any definitive examples or explanation of this in
> >>>the zope documentation.
> >>>
> >>>I have not tried to start zope with this config yet, but will
> >>>shortly.
> >>>
> >>>thanks,
> >>>Stuart
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Quoting Alan Runyan (alan at enfoldsystems.com) on Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at
> >>>01:48:01PM -0500:
> >>>
> >>>>Look at your zope.conf
> >>>>
> >>>> Alan Runyan
> >>>> Enfold Systems, Inc.
> >>>> http://www.enfoldsystems.com/
> >>>> phone: +1.713.942.2377x111
> >>>> fax: +1.832.201.8856
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>>From: Stuart L. Marshall [mailto:marshall at slac.stanford.edu]
> >>>>>Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 1:46 PM
> >>>>>To: Alan Runyan
> >>>>>Cc: Daniel Melnechuk; Stuart L. Marshall; Setup at lists.plone.org
> >>>>>Subject: Re: [Setup] multiple plone sites: need advice on how
> >>>>>to set up
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thanks very much for the help.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>If I search the zope docs, will I find these mount-point facilities?
> >>>>>I did not see them in the "add a plone site" sequence on my
> >>>>>older zope installation but I am about to go to zope 2.9 on a
> >>>>>fresh install.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Stuart
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Quoting Alan Runyan (alan at enfoldsystems.com) on Fri, Jun 30,
> >>>>>2006 at 01:34:45PM -0500:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>We run multiple Plones per Zope install.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>The best approach is to use Zope's mount-point facilities for each
> >>>>>>Plone.
> >>>>>>Thus you can control the ram utilizations and apply zodb
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>policies per
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Plone; i.e. mount each Plone site.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>On Plone.org we mount the portal_catalog since that has a
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>distinctly
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>different usage policy (i.e. we have catalog's mount point
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>caching 40k
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>objects or so -- we load a lot of the catalog into memory).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>cheers
> >>>>>> Alan Runyan
> >>>>>> Enfold Systems, Inc.
> >>>>>> http://www.enfoldsystems.com/
> >>>>>> phone: +1.713.942.2377x111
> >>>>>> fax: +1.832.201.8856
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>>>>From: Daniel Melnechuk [mailto:isis at isisdesign.com]
> >>>>>>>Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 1:07 PM
> >>>>>>>To: Alan Runyan
> >>>>>>>Cc: Stuart L. Marshall; Setup at lists.plone.org
> >>>>>>>Subject: Re: [Setup] multiple plone sites: need advice on
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>how to set
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>up
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Alan,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Sorry to be nag, but what you said is not exactly clear.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>The second
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>line seems to imply each plone should have its own Zope. But your
> >>>>>>>first line seems to imply that you should put all Plones into one
> >>>>>>>Zope.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Could you please expand on your opinion as to one plone
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>per zope or
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>many plones per zope?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Peace,
> >>>>>>>Dan
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>On Jun 30, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Alan Runyan wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Run multiple plone sites in a zope instance.
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