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Hello, we are beginning to rebuild our website with a CMS platform. We are steering towards Plone because of its widespread use (esp. among NW nonprofits like ours).
We have a site designer on board, so now all we need is a plone module set up on our web server. Is this a complicated process? I have done plenty of php, html, and other web hand coding. I am not familiar with Zope or python, but feel this should not be needed just for a simple cms install, right?
Could someone point me toward some resources that might enable me to install plone myself? It seems like it should be fairly straightforward, but I not been able to find a good tutorial yet.
Thanks!
Michael Stringer
Development Director
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy
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Plone installation
From my fairly cursory experience with plone, I can say the difficulty of installation depends on the platform. As I recall, the Windows installation was very easy. The Solaris installation was much less straightforward. The plone web site has a pretty good overview of how to install plone from source. It's worth reading just as a way to determine if you've got all of the necessary underlying software installed on your system (apache, python, etc.): http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/setup-from-source.
If you're installing on Windows or Mac OS, you'll have a much easier time with the installation, and will very likely be able to do it on you're own.
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