plone 4 on debian 5 lenny

# apt-get install g++ make libssl-dev bzip2 exim4-daemon-light

Download latest version of Plone (Unified Installer)

tar zxvf Plone-YOURVERSION-UnifiedInstaller.tgz
cd Plone-YOURVERSION-UnifiedInstaller
./install.sh standalone

w3m /usr/local/Plone/zinstance/README.html
less /usr/local/Plone/zinstance/buildout.cfg

Find start script at:

/usr/local/Plone/zinstance/bin/plonectl

Change Admin password:

• http://localhost:8080/manage (check zinstance/buildout.cfg for port)
• Enter the ZMI root
• Change the password for the admin user in the acl_users folder in the root
• Log in with the new password

Run plone 4 from init.d on Debian:
For this, you need to copy the init script from below to /etc/init.d/plone and make it executable (chmod 755), then run update-rc.d

# update-rc.d plone defaults

Debian init script:

#! /bin/sh -e

# /etc/init.d/plone
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          plone
# Required-Start:    $syslog $time $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:     $syslog $time $remote_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Plone 4
# Description:       Plone 4 instance installed with the unified installer.
### END INIT INFO
#
# Author: Simon Wunderlin, swunderlin () gmail , com
#
set -e

ZINSTANCE=/usr/local/Plone/zinstance

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:$ZINSTANCE/bin
DAEMON=$ZINSTANCE/bin/plonectl

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

case "$1" in
    start)
 log_daemon_msg "Starting plone"
 $DAEMON start >> /var/log/plone.log
 log_end_msg $?
    ;;
  stop)
 log_daemon_msg "Stopping plone"
 $DAEMON stop >> /var/log/plone.log
 log_end_msg $?
    ;;
  force-reload|restart)
    $DAEMON stop
    $DAEMON start
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/plone {start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

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