ftw.publisher example buildout

This example buildout installs the ftw.publisher.example package and demonstrates how to setup a publishing environment with ftw.publisher.

This buildout installs two zope instances, a instanceSender and a instanceReceiver. In a productive environment you may wan't to use seperate buildouts for each instance. The two instances will point to two seperate databases (var/filestorage/sender.fs and var/filestorage/receiver.fs) respectively.

Setting it up

1. Create a file buildout.cfg extending which extends from plone3.cfg and sources-readonly.cfg (optionally).

buildout.cfg:

[buildout]
extends =
    plone3.cfg
    sources-readonly.cfg

2. Run bootstrap and buildout

shell:

$ python2.4 bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout

3. Start the instances

shell:

$ bin/instanceSender start
$ bin/instanceReceiver start

4. On the sender instance (which defaults to port 8080) create a Plone site with the id sendersite, on the receiver instance (port 9080) create a Plone site with the id receiversite.
5. Create a user on the sender instance with userid "publisher_cronuser" and the password "123456" (according to the clock server configuration in the buildout) and give him the Manager role globally.
6. Create a user on the receiver instance (useid: "publisher_receiver", password "123456") and give him also the Manager role globally.

5. Install the ftw.publisher.example generic setup profile on both plone sites.
6. On the sender instance, navigate to the publisher control panel (http://localhost:8080/sendersite/@@publisher-config) and add a target server, using the URL to the receiver plone site (http://localhost:9080/receiversite/) and the username "publisher_receiver" with password "123456". Then, test the connection - it shoud work.
7. Yay, installation done. Now you can add a new content object and publish it using by workflow. It will be automatically added to the publishing queue, which will be executed every 10 minutes.
8. If you can't wait 10 minutes, go to the publisher control panel and hit the "Execute queue" button ;-) You should get something like that:

expected output:

     Executing Queue: 1 of 1 objects to 1 realms
     -
     executing "push" on "Demo" (at /sendersite/demo | UID a3174ad8704d6490af54c3d70985149c)
     ... request data length: 3314
     ... to realm http://localhost:9080/receiversite
     ... got result: ObjectCreatedState
     None

The object was created, the "None" means that no exceptions were raised at the
receiver instance, which is good.

Links

The main project package is ftw.publisher.sender since it contains all the configuration panels and the most tools - but without the other mandatory packages it will not work. Here are some additional links:

• Publisher packages on pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=ftw.publisher&submit=search
• Github: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.publisher.sender
• Issues: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.publisher.sender/issues
• Wiki: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.publisher.sender/wiki
• Source code repository of the example package: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.publisher.example
• Source code repository of the example buildout: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.publisher-example-buildout
• Continuous integration: https://jenkins.4teamwork.ch/search?q=ftw.publisher

Copyright

This package is copyright by 4teamwork and licensed under GNU General Public License, version 2.