HOWTO setup and run a Plone 4 site

Introduction

To run a system with Python version 2 we will use Debian Buster (version 10.) To make this easy you can use docker with a Dockerfile like this:

FROM debian:buster

EXPOSE 8080

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev libreadline-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev 
RUN apt-get install -y python2-dev python-pip 
RUN apt-get install -y vim git bash wget nmap
RUN apt-get install -y python-pycurl python-certifi
RUN adduser me
USER me

WORKDIR /home/me
COPY ./Plone-4.3.19-unifiedinstaller.tar ./Plone-Installer.tar
RUN tar -x -f Plone-Installer.tar
WORKDIR ./Plone-4.3.19-UnifiedInstaller/
RUN ./install.sh standalone --password=p4ssw0rd

COPY ./my.sourcecode ./src/my.sourcecode

RUN pip install bobtemplates.plone==1.0
USER root
RUN chown -R me:me src/me.*
USER me
CMD bash

... etc etc ...

To run this Dockerfile first download plone put it in the directory with your dockerfile and then run:

docker build -t myplonesite ./

after completed then run

docker run -v Volumename:/home/me/Plone -p8080:8080 -it myplonesite

Now you can run Plone as normal:

cd /home/me/Plone/zinstance/
bin/buildout -c develop.cfg
bin/instance fg

Now open in your browser and create your Plone site:

localhost:8080/