Installing Plone 4 on Centos 6

Plone 4 is based on Python and Zope and provides its own little database.

Installation on Centos 6.3 was pretty straight forward in the standalone mode. Alternative, mode is as ZEO Cluster or a single running instance.

Step 1: Download the Unified installer (comes with Python and Zope) for Plone.

Download from Plone.org (https://launchpad.net/plone/4.2/4.2.1/+download/Plone-4.2.1-UnifiedInstaller.tgz) with a file size of approx 50MB.

See http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/4.2.1

Step 2: Install dependency files.
Most of these are already installed if Centos was installed with the development tools.
Add the RPMForge repo;

wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm
rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm

yum install gcc gcc-g++ make tar bzip2 gzip
yum install readline libgsf
yum install wv

If there is problem with the wv package, download wv from EPEL or http://wvware.sourceforge.net and install with RPM.

rpm -ivh wv-1.2.7-2.el6.i686.rpm


Step 3: Extract & Install Plone
Enter the directory with the UnifiedInstaller (Download directory).

tar zxvf Plone-4.2.1-UnifiedInstaller.tar.gz
cd plone-4.2.1
./install.sh standalone
cd /usr/local/Plone/zinstance

Identify which port (default 8080) will be used for Plone. If needed, change the port then apply changes by typing

bin/buildout

Step 4: Start/Stop Plone
The Plone server can be started or stop with following command (replace the word start)

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

Step 5: Access Plone
Open a web browser (e.g. Firefox, Chrome) and enter following URL address;

http://localhost:8080

Default password is found in the file /usr/local/Plone/zinstance/adminPassword.txt

Create a Plone instance, then read the instructions at the main page of the Plone instance.

Additional notes:
Install following packages;

• Openoffice.org or libreoffice (headless) for better document conversion
• msttcorefonts for better formatting compatibility, see previous post. 

References: http://plone.org/documentation/manual/installing-plone/installing-on-linux-unix-bsd/referencemanual-all-pages