[Setup] buildout and custom zope.conf for multiple mount points

Giovanni Toffoli toffoli at uni.net
Thu May 8 12:10:39 UTC 2008


Hi all,

in most cases it is convenient for me to have multiple Plone sites in the 
same Zope instance, each stored on a separate .fs database.

In the Zope instances that I created the old style, without buildout, for 
each new Plone site I
- added a zodb_db element in the zope.conf file
- restarted the Zope instance
- created the correponding ZODB mount point from the ZMI root
- added a "Plone site" object inside the folder associated to that mount 
point.

Now, I'm wandering how to recover a similar pattern in a buildout-oriented 
installation.
Some questions:
- can I customize by hand the zope.conf file?
- won't next buildout execution overwrite it?
- in the additional zodb_db elements, should I specify a path similar to 
that of the Main database?
- can I define other variables at the top of zope.conf, and refer them in 
defining the paths of the databases?
- where can I find more info on this subject?

Thank you very much in advance for any info / suggestion.

Giovanni Toffoli





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