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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 Varnish—a caching agent


To add Varnish to your Buildout, you can use one of the CMMI recipes (configure; make; make install) like zc.recipe.cmmi (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.cmmi) or hexagonit.recipe.cmmi (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hexagonit.recipe.cmmi).

You can also use an operating system vendor package. Whichever you choose, you may want to use Buildout to create a Varnish configuration file suitable to use with your Plone site.

Advanced users may create their own configuration file template, and generate a configuration file dynamically when Buildout runs, with the help of the collective.recipe.template recipe (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.recipe.template).

We will not cover installation with vendor packages, or the advanced template generation approach.

What we will cover is Varnish installation and configuration with zc.recipe.cmmi (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.recipe.cmmi) and plone.recipe.varnish ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.recipe.varnish)...