CHAPTER 2Installing Plone

This chapter explains how to install Plone and all its dependencies on a variety of platforms, and how to set the basic configuration options for Plone. Unlike the other chapters, reading this chapter from one end to the other may not make the most sense. Instead, you may want to read only the sections you need in order to install Plone on your operating system.

To get through this chapter, it is useful to know the dependences between Python, the programming language, Zope, the application server, and Plone. The Plone software is installed on top of the Zope application server, so when we talk about starting Plone, we really mean starting the Zope service. The same applies for the installation steps. It is important ...

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