Preface

About the Author

Mohd Izhar Firdaus Bin Ismail, or, more commonly known in the Malaysian tech / Open Source community as KageSenshi, is a co-founder and system engineer in Inigo Consulting. With over 5 years experience developing and maintaining Plone sites and addons for United Nations International Labour Organization, World Council of Churches, and various NGOs, Izhar, alongside with his colleagues in Inigo Consulting, are one of the few Plone specialists in Malaysia and neighboring countries.

This guide serve as a gathering of these experience into a documented format, for others to quickly able to setup a Plone infrastructure for their organization and also as a future reference for himself.

Who is this guide is for?

This guide is aimed towards system administrators who wish to quickly deploy a Plone based site in their organization. We will be covering deployment setups from a basic, single Zope instance deployment, to setting up a horizontal-scalable cluster complete with HTTP caching and loadbalancing support.

This guide is not meant to be a replacement for the official Plone Developer Documentation, but rather to complement it as a simplified quick guide to set up Plone.

How this guide is organized?

This guide is organized in sections that focuses on immediate sysadmin goals. Each section consist of an introduction on the setup, its use-case, a step-by-step guide to solve the goal, and is followed by some common troubleshooting questions related to the task in hand.

Assumptions

This guide assumes you are on a RedHat/CentOS/Fedora based system with Python2.6 installed.