Adding a new Plone server

Log into the root account of the Linux system at marinebiodiversity.ca

• sudo su
• cd /home/plone
• ./createPloneSite $SITE $USER $PASSWORD
• $SITE is the name of the site you're adding (e.g. "chone")
• $USER is contact information about the site's owner/administrator (I use "name <email> phone")
• $PASSWORD is used to initialize the subversion server so that the administrator will be able to checkout/commit changes to site specific code

Log in to the new account

• sudo su -l plone-$SITE
• edit $SITE.cfg
• Add appropriate names for $SITE to the [filestorage*] sections
• The current PORT-BASE is 20. 
  
• Add 10 to the number above - and re-save this document! - and change port-base and zeo-address appropriately in the .cfg file.
  

• if the site has any special code, check it out from subversion to the src/ directory.
  
• bin/buildout -c $SITE.cfg
• exit

Modify the apache config

• The apache configuration file at sftp://marinebiodiversity.ca/etc/httpd/conf.d/cmb.conf contains rewrite rules to enable the user to reach the Plone server through the firewall.
• Add a line:

RewriteRule ^/$SITE(.*) http://localhost:$PORT/VirtualHostBase/http/www.marinebiodiversity.ca:80/$SITEmount/VirtualHostRoot/$SITE$1 [L,P]

Return to the root account

• /etc/init.d/httpd restart    # restart the apache server to pick up the change above
• cp /etc/init.d/plone-nagisa /etc/init.d/plone-$SITE
• change all 'nagisa' to $SITE
  
• /sbin/chkconfig --add plone-$SITE

Log into the Zope server

• Log into the Zope server at http://localhost:PORT/ where "PORT" is 12000+PORT-BASE as specified above.  You will need to do this either by running a browser client on Marinebiodiversity.ca, or by using an ssh tunnel to the machine.
  
• Go to the Zope Management Interface, using the username "admin" and password "$PASSWORD"
• Add a ZODB Mount Point (it's pre-configured, just check it and click on the "create..." button