Installing Plone

Plone Support Deployment & hosting
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Hi, I found out about Plone from a job ad, and need to try to install it for my portfolio, I see it's a CMS, Content Management System or Community Management System? anyway, I was about to download then I saw different installers https://plone.org/download/releases/5.0.6, I don't know which one, I have this plan https://www.stablehost.com/features.php EXCEPT SSH(I do not have SSH)

I pretty much see the same fate as Flarium and Discourse where it's too complex to install, wait I can do complex but I am blocked again by SSH requirement.

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If you start using Plone in a professional context then best is you start reading https://docs.plone.org/ to find out what Plone is and get your questions answered. If something is not covered do not hesitate to come back and ask.

Also start going through https://training.plone.org/ to learn how to use and work with Plone. It is probably also a good idea to attend a training, i.e. at the next Plone conference https://2017.ploneconf.org

If you anyway run into trouble or questions are not answered just come back here with more specific questions.

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And yes, indeed, Plone has the requirement to ssh into the box. See https://docs.plone.org/manage/installing/requirements.html

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I mean, are the installers talking about what is my operating system is or if my host is linux or windows?

e.g. I have Windows OS and I think a Linux host

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I also tried many times to install Plone locally but was unsuccessful every time. However, I can give you step-by-step instructions to install Plnoe on a $5/m plan on Digitalocean if you're up for that. It's a very cheap way for you to get some seat time with the CMS.

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You can't use/install Plone on share hosting, so it should be VPS or Cloud if we talking about web hosting.
You can check here for hosting. https://www.linode.com/
Here is very comnplete instructions for understanding how Plone works with hostng.
If we talk about localhost, then you can use Apache server or Xampp or Wamp.

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You can install Plone for free very easily using this button http://plone.fr/essayer-plone

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Is there already an Heroku installer for the latest beta of Plone 5.1?

Thanks,
Enzo

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Not to my knowledge, but if you look at the HTML for that button, it uses https://github.com/collective/training-sandbox and so it specifies here which version of Plone to use: https://github.com/collective/training-sandbox/blob/master/buildout.cfg#L2 (5.0.6, which means that we should update it to 5.0.7 which has just been released!)

You could clone that repo and modify your cloned buildout.cfg to make it do anything :slight_smile:

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Great! thanks for the heads up!

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I don't know any of those. Also, I have SSH now.

Have you made it work? can you please share?