Plone 4.3 in Windows Service manager

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We're upgrading a customer's py26 Plone 4 to py27. Created a py27 virtualenv, updated the buildout in-place (newer bootstrap, zc.buildout). Zeoserver and clients now run fine.

Problem is installation in Windows service manager: This was a binary installer originally. The buildout parts that should generate the Service-specific python binaries used enfold.recipe.winserver, which is not on the customer's server anymore and dist.enfoldsystems.com has gone. Can't find it on github either. From https://github.com/plone/WinPloneInstaller/issues/1 i deduce that installing Plone in service manager is non-trivial even on Plone 5.

  • Could one do manually what that recipe does, and if yes, how?
  • Who has used http://nssm.cc/? We're considering that to be an option, if the customer's IT allows it.
  • Any other thoughts?

Thanks in advance for any answers!

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Ask Enfold if they still have the egg somewhere and if they'd be nice enough to put it on PyPi.

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I found a Plone-4.3.1-win64.exe on LaunchPad. Not sure if it would install with a different Python version though: I seem to remember Python was packaged with the installer.

We're currently trying out nssm.cc which looks nice.

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You can certainly exhume enfold.recipe.winservice from an old Plone Windows installer (4.2 or something like that). These days it was considered taboo to have a server connected to the Internet so everything had to be packaged in the installer.