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Plone 3.3 Site Administration

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Plone 3.3 Site Administration

Overview of this book

In the past few years, we have seen some dramatic changes in the way Plone sites are being developed, deployed, and maintained. As a result, developing and deploying sites, changing their default settings, and performing day to day maintenance tasks can be a challenge. This book covers site administration tasks, from setting up a development instance, to optimizing a deployed production site, and more. It demonstrates how-to perform these tasks in a comprehensive way, and walks the user through the necessary steps to achieve results.We have divided the subject of Plone site administration into three categories: development, deployment, and maintenance. We begin by explaining how a Plone site is built, and how to start using it through the web. Next, we add features by installing add-on products, focusing on themes, blogging, and other common enhancements. After the basics of developing and deploying a Plone site are covered, the book covers the basics of maintaining it.Further, throughout the book we preview some new technologies related to Plone site administration, available now as add-ons to the current Plone release. Finally, we will cover a variety of techniques to help you optimize your site's performance.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Plone 3.3 Site Administration
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you have learned the following:

  • Adding ZEO to create a production buildout

  • Using collective.recipe.backup to make using repozo easier

  • Automating database backups with z3c.recipe.usercrontab and Task Scheduler

  • Restoring your database from a backup with the help of collective.recipe.backup

  • Packing your database with zeopack

  • Automating database packing with help from z3c.recipe.usercrontab and Task Scheduler

  • Rotating logs with iw.rotatezlogs

Next, in Chapter 6, we will to focus on what we can do while our site is running to monitor and optimize the performance.

Later in Chapter 7, we will cover troubleshooting and upgrading along with various security concerns.