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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

Installing Squid—a caching agent


To install squid, we will use the zc.recipe.cmmi recipe (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.cmmi) and plone.recipe.squid recipe (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.recipe.squid).

In 06-deployment-optimization-squid.cfg, we have:

[buildout]
extends = 06-deployment-optimization-varnish.cfg
parts += 
    squid-install
    squid

[squid-install]
recipe = zc.recipe.cmmi
url = http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/\
  squid-3.0.STABLE21.tar.gz

[squid]
recipe = plone.recipe.squid:instance
cache-size = 1000
daemon = ${squid-install:location}/sbin/squid
backends = 127.0.0.1:8080
bind = 127.0.0.1:3128

Now stop Varnish and run Buildout:

$ bin/buildout -c 06-deployment-optimization-squid.cfg

Next, be sure to create some cache swap directories for Squid, with the following command:

$ bin/squid -z 

You should see:

$ bin/squid -z         
2010/05/21 11:54:41| Creating Swap Directories

Next, start Squid in the foreground (with –N), as shown:

$ bin/squid -N

Now, browse...