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Download area for website toolkit and underlying platform software.
Latest release: Website Toolkit 2.0
Website Toolkit works with all the platforms. Please click on the appropriate link to download the Website Toolkit. Scroll down to read the Installation Instructions.
The Website Toolkit is built on Plone 2.5 using Zope 2.8 and later. Use following links for downloading plone.
Get
Plone
for
Windows
(~21 MB) ,
Installer (includes Zope 2.9.x) for Windows 2000/XP/2003
Get
Plone
for
Mac OS X
(~37 MB),
Intel Installer (Includes everything you need)
Get
Plone
for
Mac OS X
(~37 MB)
PowerPC Installer (10.4 only - Includes everything you need)
Get
Plone
for
Linux
(~32 MB),
Universal installer for Linux/BSD/OS X/UNIX/Solaris (compiles and installs Python, Zope and Plone plus dependencies for you)
Get
Plone
for
SUSE Linux
(~37 MB)
OpenSUSE Linux 10.2 installer
Get
Plone
for
all platforms
(8.5 MB)
Product package (requires Zope 2.9.5+ or Zope 2.8.7+Five already installed)
Download Website Toolkit Zip file for all platforms: coming soon.
Installation Instructions for Plone / Zope
| On clicking on the links above it will prompt you to open or save file. Save the file on your hard disk. It is a ZIP file named "Website-Toolkit-1-0.zip" | |
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unzipping the file you will see one Windows Installer named
"Zope-2.7.7-Final-win32.exe", and Two Folders namely "Products" and
"var". |
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click on the Zope Windows Installer to install Zope Server on your
computer. Follow the Instructions as you install the application. This will create a Zope-Instance on your computer in your specified location. You will be providing a password during installation that will be used later to access your Zope Management Interface. |
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Once
you finish installing Zope successfully go to the location you have
installed your Zope-Instance in your computer. For example, if
you specified "C:\Zope-Instance" as installation directory, then go to
drive C. You will see a folder named "Zope-Instance" there.
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you have replaced the folders, now you need to start your Zope using
Zope Console. Go to Programs > Zope 2.7.7 final > Run Zope In
Console. You can also click on the "zope console icon" on quick launch
bar. This will start a console window to start up Zope. It will display message "Zope ready to handle requests" when it is ready. |
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OR Zope Console |
If you followed above instructions properly then you are ready to view your first site and Zope Management Interface. Please click on the links below to view your installation site, and Zope. It will open up the site installed on your computer.
http://localhost/plone (your plain website)
http://localhost/manage (your Zope Management Interface)
There is one preconfigured Account. Username admin with password
plone. Please change the password immediately after logging in the
first time.
To learn more about how to do go about everything on your website using toolkit, i.e. manage contents, images, banners, navigation, change color schemes, layouts etc, please visit "Help Desk"
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