[Setup] Moving a buildout into production

[afewtips.com]

Oh! Very good. I think I understand. It's starting to make sense.
Thanks very much for the reply.



Sergey V. wrote:
> 
> 1. Put your buildout configuration into svn. This actually includes only
> the root folder, bootstrap.py and buildout.cfg. You will probably need
> another config which includes settings which are deployment-specific,
> let's call it deployment.cfg.
> 2. Check everything out at the server:
>    svn co svn://mysvnserver.com/mycoolsite
> 3. go to the mycoolsite folder and run bootstrap script:
>    python bootstrap.py
> 4. Let buildout to do the rest of the job:
>    bin/buildout -c deployment.cfg
> 5. Start the server:
>    bin/instance fg (or bin/instance start)
> 
> If you made any ZODB changes at the dev site which you want to transfer to
> the production, you will need to copy Data.fs too. 
> 
> The point is - generally you don't need to set up a Zope instance at the
> server separately, buildout will create it for you. All you need is Python
> of the right version.
> 
> In the future if you need to update your production configuration all you
> need is
> 
> svn up
> bin/buildout -c deployment.cfg
> bin/instance restart
> 
> 
> 
> afewtips.com wrote:
>> 
>> Another part of the question is if I develop a site with a buildout, when
>> I want to apply that configuration to a production server, do I have to
>> use a buildout on the production server?
>> It's not clear how go between enviornments. 
>> It looks like from the response and some other reading, that recreating
>> the configuration has to be done in steps
>> and cannot be processed in one step. 
>> 
> 
> 

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