This is part 2 of installing Plone 5 on Windows. The following instructions are specific to installing Plone 5 on Windows. Part 1 covered preparing your Windows machine for Plone.
git clone https://github.com/collective/themedev.buildout
Assumptions
- Your system has been configured using the steps outlined in part 1 (see: prepare your Windows machine for Plone).
- You have a reasonably reliable internet connection
You now have all the tools needed to build a full Plone environment. Plone uses a tool called "buildout" for managing builds, this makes it possible to distribute you build configurations using git or other revision management tools. We will checkout an existing buildout called "themedev.buildout". The intention of the "themedev.buildout" is to provide all the tools needed for Plone theme development.
In the steps below you will run an initializaton script and then use calld "setup.bat"
In the steps below you will run an initializaton script and then use calld "setup.bat"
Step 1 - Install Virtualenv
Launch git bash and run the following to install virtualenv.pip install virtualenv
Step 2 - Clone the buildout, run the setup script and bin/buildout
git clone https://github.com/collective/themedev.buildout
cd themedev.buildout
./setup.bat
bin/buildout
./setup.bat
bin/buildout
Day to Day Usage
To launch the instance run the following:
bin/instance fg