Hi Giovanni, Take a look at Plone.Org's own buildout configuration, available at:
http://dev.plone.org/plone/browser/PloneOrg/buildouts/trunk/production/base.cfg for an example. The key trick is using the "zope-conf-additional =" directive to define additional storages and mount points. Steve On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Giovanni Toffoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > in most cases it is convenient for me to have multiple Plone sites in the > same Zope instance, each stored on a separate .fs database. > > In the Zope instances that I created the old style, without buildout, for > each new Plone site I > - added a zodb_db element in the zope.conf file > - restarted the Zope instance > - created the correponding ZODB mount point from the ZMI root > - added a "Plone site" object inside the folder associated to that mount > point. > > Now, I'm wandering how to recover a similar pattern in a buildout-oriented > installation. > Some questions: > - can I customize by hand the zope.conf file? > - won't next buildout execution overwrite it? > - in the additional zodb_db elements, should I specify a path similar to > that of the Main database? > - can I define other variables at the top of zope.conf, and refer them in > defining the paths of the databases? > - where can I find more info on this subject? > > Thank you very much in advance for any info / suggestion. > > Giovanni Toffoli > > > > _______________________________________________ > Setup mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup > -- ______________________________________________________ Steve McMahon Reid-McMahon, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
