Plone 3.3 Site Administration -- Table of Contents -- Plone 3.3 Site Administration -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Background -- Site administration essentials -- Development -- Deployment -- Maintenance -- What you need to get started -- Modern computer -- Supported operating system -- Internet connection -- Terminal window -- Text editor -- About Plone installers -- About Python software distributions -- Using Python on Mac OS X -- Verify that Python works -- Installing Python on Windows -- Download the Python installer -- Run the Python installer -- Configure the Environment Variable-Path -- Verify that Python works -- Install PyWin -- Using Python on Ubuntu Linux -- Verify that Python works -- How to install Distribute-a framework for managing Python packages -- Installing Distribute on Mac OS X -- Download distribute_setup.py -- Execute distribute_setup.py -- Verify that Distribute works -- Installing Distribute on Windows 7 -- Download distribute_setup.py -- Execute distribute_setup.py -- Verify that Distribute works -- Installing Distribute on Ubuntu Linux -- Download distribute_setup.py -- Execute distribute_setup.py -- Verify that Distribute works -- How to install PIP: a more user friendly Python package installer -- Installing PIP on Mac OS X -- Installing PIP on Windows 7 -- Installing PIP on Ubuntu Linux -- How to install Buildout-a tool for building software -- Installing Buildout on Mac OS X -- Installing Buildout on Windows 7 -- Installing Buildout on Ubuntu Linux -- More about Python software distributions -- How to install a C compiler -- Installing a C compiler on Mac OS X -- Installing XCode.

Verify that GCC works -- Installing a C compiler on Windows -- Downloading MinGW -- Installing MinGW -- Adding MinGW to the Environment Variable-Path -- Verify that GCC works -- Configuring Distutils -- Installing a C compiler on Ubuntu Linux -- Verify that GCC works -- Installing additional development libraries -- How to install Subversion-a version control system -- Using Subversion on Mac OS X -- Verify that Subversion works -- Installing Subversion on Windows -- Downloading Subversion -- Installing Subversion -- Verify that Subversion works -- Installing Subversion on Ubuntu Linux -- Verify that Subversion works -- How to install Python with Buildout -- Running the first buildout -- Running the second buildout -- Verify that Python works -- Summary -- 2. Site Basics -- More about Buildout -- Configuration file format -- About the Python buildout -- The buildout section -- Adding parts -- Global versus local Buildout command -- Introducing the Plone buildout -- Using the extends parameter to specify versions -- Using plone.recipe.zope2install to install Zope 2 -- Using plone.recipe.zope2instance to create a Zope 2 instance -- The PIL problem -- Using the Python buildout -- Using PIP -- Adding PIL to your buildout -- Bootstrapping and running the buildout -- Adding a Plone site -- Starting Plone and adding a Plone site manually -- Changing the top-level Zope user's password -- Adding a Plone site with Buildout -- Customizing site navigation -- Plone 3 navigation portlet extended -- Installing collective.portlet.explore -- Installing webcouturier.dropdownmenu -- Adding new content types -- Adding a blog entry type -- Configure the blog_view -- Configure the RSS feed -- Summary -- 3. Appearance -- Installing themes with Buildout -- Searching for themes on plone.org -- Adding themes with Buildout -- Installing themes in Plone.

Examining themes with Omelette and Python -- Installing and using Omelette -- Exploring modules with zopepy -- Overview of theme package files -- Creating a theme package with ZopeSkel -- Adding ZopeSkel to a buildout -- Running ZopeSkel -- Running Paster -- Examining themes in the Zope Management Interface -- Making changes through the Web -- portal_skins -- portal_view_customizations -- Summary -- 4. Administration -- Configuring mail settings in a development environment -- Setting up the mail host -- Avoiding the mail host -- Faking the mail host -- User and group management: Out of the box -- The Zope 2 administrator account -- The Plone administrator account -- Resetting the password -- Users and groups management with LDAP -- Adding plone.app.ldap to the Buildout -- Adding plone.app.ldap to Plone -- Configuring plone.app.ldap -- LDAP Terminology -- DN -- DC, UID, OU -- RDN -- Bind DN and password -- Attributes and object classes -- Entering the form data -- LDAP server type -- RDN attribute -- User id attribute -- Login name attribute -- LDAP object classes -- Bind DN and password -- Base DN and search scope for users and groups -- Restarting Plone -- Using LDAP in Plone -- Creating and using LDAP groups -- Restarting Plone -- Adding users to MyGroup -- Summary -- 5. Deployment and Maintenance -- Creating a production buildout -- Backing up your database -- The repozo utility -- Making repozo easier with collective.recipe.backup -- A simple backup strategy -- Automating database backups -- Using z3c.recipe.usercrontab on Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux -- Using Task Scheduler on Windows -- Restoring your database from a backup -- Packing your database -- Automate database packing -- Rotating logs -- Using iw.rotatezlogs on Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows -- Summary -- 6. Optimization -- Caching background in the context of Plone.

Installing CacheFu-a caching add-on for Plone -- Installing Varnish-a caching agent -- Installing Squid-a caching agent -- Creating multiple instances with Buildout macros -- Load balancing in the context of Plone -- Installing HAProxy-a load balancer -- The HAProxy binary -- The HAProxy configuration file -- Installing Pound-a load balancer -- The Pound binary -- The Pound configuration file -- Installing Supervisor-a process manager -- Understanding the software stack -- Frontend Apache configuration -- Frontend Nginx configuration -- Installing Munin plugins to analyze performance -- Installing the munin.zope package -- Testing the munin.zope plugins through the Web -- Installing the munin.zope plugins on the command line -- Testing the munin.zope plugins on the command line -- Munin graphs -- ZODB activity -- Zope cache parameters -- Zope memory usage -- Zope 2 server threads -- Summary -- 7. Security -- Restricting TCP/IP access to localhost or LAN host -- Managing IP addresses and ports effectively -- Configuring the Zope 2 effective user dynamically -- Installing Cassandra to audit through the web (TTW) security -- Permissions and roles in the ZMI -- Roles and groups -- Cassandra -- Applying security and bug fixes to Plone -- Using a newer Zope 2 with an older release of Plone -- Hold on to your buildouts -- A "modern" Plone 2.1 buildout -- Summary -- 8. The Future -- Specifying package versions -- Executing Buildout in offline mode -- Analyzing the contents of our buildout -- Staying calm when trouble arises -- Upgrading to Plone 4 -- Summary -- Index.