Installing Zope with virtualenv¶
This document describes how to install Zope into a virtualenv.
Create a Virtual Environment¶
$ virtualenv --python=python2.7 zope
New python executable in zope/bin/python2.7
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
$ cd zope
Install the Zope2 Software Packages¶
Look for the release you want to install on https://github.com/zopefoundation/Zope/releases. Than use the specific version in the URL, replacing 4.0a5 in the example below:
$ bin/pip install \
-r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zopefoundation/Zope/4.0a5/requirements-full.txt
Obtaining Zope2
...
Successfully installed ...
Creating a Zope instance¶
Once you’ve installed Zope, you will need to create an “instance
home”. This is a directory that contains configuration and data for a
Zope server process. The instance home is created using the
mkwsgiinstance script:
$ bin/mkwsgiinstance -d .
You will be asked to provide a user name and password for an
administrator’s account during mkwsgiinstance. To see the available
command-line options, run the script with the --help option:
$ bin/mkwsgiinstance --help
The -d . specifies the directory to create the instance home in.
If you follow the example and choose the current directory, you’ll
find the instances files in the subdirectories of the virtualenv:
etc/will hold the configuration files.var/will hold the database files.